Alfred JOHANNOT

Original wash drawing by Alfred Johannot, a study entitled La Confession for a lithograph published in volume 2 of L'Artiste (22nd issue).
Attached: a lithographed proof of the drawing (slightly spotted) executed by J. Lion and Bichebois the elder, signed Alfred Johannot pinx. in the lower left corner, and J. Lion lith. in the lower right corner.

Alfred Johannot worked with his brothers Tony and Charles as an illustrator, engraver and vignettist. The Johannot brothers occupy an important place in the history of the Romantic illustrated book for their work on celebrated works by Walter Scott, Beaumarchais, Bernardin de Saint

Notre-Dame de Paris [The Hunchback of Notre-Dame]
Eugène Renduel, Paris 1836, 13x21,2cm, 631pp., bound.
First illustrated edition known as “Keepsake edition”, first issue, in a single volume.
A steel-engraved frontispiece title and 10 full-page plates printed on papier de chine appliqué by Alfred & Tony Johannot, Louis Boulanger, Camille Rogier. Well printed in a spaced typography with large margins, similar to the first edition published in 1831. Without the plate “De l'utilité des fenêtres” [On the usefulness of windows] like most first issue copies, as it was not finished when printing began.

Publisher's “Rocaille” binding in br