Achille DEVÉRIA

First edition.
Contemporary green half morocco bindings, spines uniformly sunned, with gilt fillets and dentelle motifs, marbled paper covers, morocco label "Marie Seillan" pasted on each volume, spine-ends rubbed, otherwise a handsome copy. Scattered foxing, paper on some issues a little browned.
Detailed volume contents :
- Volume 1: 26 issues (nos. 1 to 26) and 26 scores, 2 lithographs with the first two scores, an engraved portrait of Rossini, vignettes in the text.
- Volume 2: 25 issues (nos. 27 to 52) and 26 scores, vignettes in the text.
- Volume 3: 26 issues (nos. 1 to 26) and 26 scores (two scores are missing and have been replaced by three others). Complete...

Edition with some parts in first edition, illustrated with 100 (of 103) vignettes after drawings by Daubigny, Johannot, Charlet, Raffet, Scheffer, Devéria...
Half red calf bindings with corners, spines slightly faded with one raised band decorated with gilt and black romantic arabesques, gilt friezes at head and foot, gilt fillet frames on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, some corners slightly bumped, contemporary bindings.
Some foxing, four vignettes lacking in our copy.
However, our copy is complete with the two portraits of Béranger and the facsimile of a 4-page manuscript letter, all placed at the beginning of volume I.

Original pencil drawing depicting a seated woman with crossed hands, wearing a dress with imposing drapery and flowers in her hair. Artist's stamp at bottom left of the sheet.
Achille Devéria (1800-1857) is a French painter, illustrator and engraver, student of Girodet-Trioson. He is a recognized illustrator and published numerous lithographs (Contes by Perrault, Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, La Henriade...). In 1849, he was appointed director of the prints department of the Bibliothèque Nationale and assistant curator of the Egyptian department of the Louvre.
The famous portrait of Honoré de Balzac as a young man (1825) is attributed to him. He...

First collected edition.
Half olive calf binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt romantic decorative motifs, small tear at head of spine, marbled paper boards, lower corners slightly bumped, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary romantic binding.
Work illustrated with a portrait of the author as frontispiece.
Some foxing.

Third edition illustrated with a portrait of the author as frontispiece to the first volume.
Full cherry red calf bindings, spines slightly faded with four raised bands decorated with gilt triple compartments, gilt dates at foot, gilt roulettes on headcaps, frames of sextuple gilt and blind fillets on boards meeting at corners, gilt dotting on leading edges, gilt roulette frame on pastedowns, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt, elegant contemporary Romantic bindings.
Scattered foxing.

New edition.

Illustrated with 130 vignettes and a portrait of Perrault, by the greatest illustrators of the century: Tony Johannot, Achille Devéria, Jean Gigoux, Napoléon Thomas, Célestin Nanteuil, engraved by Jacoste Jeune.

Bound in half roan, smooth spine framed in gilt, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns in papier caillouté. 

This edition contains La Barbe Bleue, Le petit chaperon rouge, Les fées, La belle au bois dormant, Le Chat Botté, Cendrillon, Riquet a la houpe, Petit poucet, L'adroite princesse, Peau d'ane, Griselidis, followed by Lettre à M*** en lui envoyant Griselidis, and Les souhaits ridicules.
Dry stamp of Henry Bertrand's...

Musée des familles Extremely rare erotic set, anonymous but attributed to Achille Devéria, comprising an illustrated cover depicting a teacher showing 3 children drawings on a board of female and male genitals, and 12 black lithographs, numbered and entitled respectively: Childhood. –Pucelage. – The Bride. – A good position. – All places are good. – My Husband is sleeping. – The Bidet. – Pastimes – The Boudoir. – The Discovery. – The Official Report. – The Cantinière (Historical 1830). This copy also includes 2 further lithographs, un-numbered, one...

First edition.
Pamphlet in plain temporary wrapper with minor corner lacks without damage, handsome interior condition.
Rare.