Henry MONNIER

First printing of the 31 illustrations outside text (29 plates and 2 frontispieces) and numerous vignettes within the text by Gavarni, Daumier, D'Aubigny, Adam, Emy, Traviès, Boulanger, Monnier and Théno.
This is a copy of the first edition of 1843 reissued by Marescq in 1844 with the same illustrations but with different titles and additionally containing 11 plates outside text in volume 1, 2 engraved titles as well as 2 frontispieces.
Texts by Paul de Kock, Honoré de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Frédéric Soulié, Léon Gozlan, Edouard Ourliac, Eugène Briffault, Eugène Guinot and Henri Monnier.
Half chocolate brown morocco bindings with corners, smooth spines decorated with richly...

First edition.
Half brown morocco shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands, date gilt at foot, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of pebbled paper, covers and sunned spine preserved, top edge gilt, bookplate pasted on pastedown, binding signed René Aussourd.
Some minor foxing without significance.
Handsome copy beautifully bound.

First edition.
Full navy blue cloth Bradel binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral motif, date and double gilt fillets at foot, brown shagreen title-label, binding signed in blind by Pierson.
Some minor foxing of no consequence.

Belgian pirate edition published the same year as the first separate edition which was banned for Belgium and abroad.
Publisher's binding in full blue cloth, smooth spine, blind-ruled frame on the covers.
Some minor foxing without consequence.

First Edition printed 200 copies numbered on white vellum.
Publisher's binding in full ivory cardboard vellum, back with four nerves set with black threads, framing of double black nets on the boards.
Rare foxinges without gravity.
Beautiful copy established in its binding of the publisher.
Handwritten signature of Henry Monnier to the justification of the draw.

First edition of some parts of the text.
Half navy blue calf bindings, smooth spines decorated with gilt garlands as well as gilt and black fillets, gilt friezes at head and foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary bindings.
Occasional light foxing.

Edition with some parts in first edition.
Half brown shagreen bindings, spines faded with four fine raised bands set with double gilt dotted lines decorated with double gilt compartments and black fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
Rare set free from worming or foxing (cf Clouzot).

Second edition written under the collective pseudonym of Monsieur de Fongeray and illustrated with a lithographed portrait of the so-called de Fongeray by Henry Monnier, which is actually nothing other than a portrait of Stendhal, for according to Charles Asselineau: "We have it from M. Henry Monnier that the supposed portrait of M. de Fongeray is nothing less than that of Stendhal slightly caricatured".
Half raspberry calf bindings, smooth spines decorated with gilt and black fillets, gilt friezes at head and tail, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, handsome unsigned contemporary romantic bindings
Our copy is complete with the autograph...

First Edition printed 200 copies numbered on white vellum.
Publisher's binding in full ivory cardboard vellum, back with four nerves set with black threads, framing of double black nets on the boards.
Rare autograph dedication signed by Henry Monnier to a friend.
Beautiful copy established in its binding of the publisher.

First edition for each volume.
Half red shagreen bindings, spines with four raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons, marbled paper boards, two corners slightly bumped, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Works illustrated with a facsimile and a portrait of M. Joseph Prudhomme as well as 6 lithographs hors-texte by H. Monnier for the first volume, with drawings by the author in-text for the second volume
A tiny marginal lack not touching text at foot of page 172 of the second volume, some minor foxing.
Handsome set in uniform binding.

First separate edition, this one banned for Belgium and foreign countries.
Half raspberry red shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt and blind fillets as well as gilt stars, red sheep boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Copy free from foxing.

New edition.
Bradel binding of half yellow cloth.

Œuvres complètes de Balzac [enriched with] handwritten letter signed by Balzac
First edition, one of the extremely rare copies all with the Furne address, including the last three volumes, complete with all its first print plates, set in an elegant, strictly contemporary, uniform binding. Our copy is also complete with the portrait of Balzac, on the frontispiece of the Comédie humaine and the biographical preface by George Sand which is most often missing.

“First collective edition under the title of Oeuvres, presenting a...

New edition with some parts in first edition.
Half red shagreen binding, spine with five thin raised bands set with black fillets, marbled paper boards with some scuffing, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Work illustrated with numerous in-text drawings by Henry Monnier engraved on wood.
Provenance: from Château Laffite with bookplate pasted on pastedown and enhanced with manuscript notes specifying its location in the library.

New edition of 1500 numbered copies on vélin pur chiffon paper.
A very good copy.

First edition.
Some foxing, a small tear without loss, repaired on page 245.

New edition.
This text is preceded by a study on the erotic theatre of the rue de la Santé.
Handsome copy.