Maison Quantin

Original etching before letters heightened with aquatint.
Created on laid paper at the request of publisher A. QUANTIN to illustrate La Fontaine's fable: "The Lark and her Young Ones, with the Master of a Field".
Very fine condition, presented in a modern black mat and protected by tissue guard.
Auguste Delierre (1829-1891) is referenced thus in Bénézit, dictionary of painters, sculptors, draughtsmen and engravers: "history painter, genre scenes, animated landscapes, still lifes, illustrator. Student of Eugène Ciceri, he participated in the Paris Salon between 1852 and 1889. His compositions of landscapes animated with hunting dogs show the influence of works by Desportes and Oudry which he long copied. He moreover shows a predilection for still lifes. He also illustrated La Fontaine's Fables." Alain-Marie Bassy in his book "Les Fables de La Fontaine, quatre siècles d'illustration" ["La Fontaine's Fables, Four Centuries of Illustration"] analyzes his style for the representation of fables: "S'il recherche le même angle de vue sur l'animal que Gustave Doré, il écarte tout sens de l'effroi. L'oiseau blessé d'une flèche n'est plus un grand oiseau migrateur mais la caille délicieusement colorée des natures mortes. [...]Devant [les animaux au milieu desquels nous vivons], l'œil de Delierre est aussi froid que celui d'un entomologiste. L'art de la fable devient chez lui le plus bel exemple de naturalisme pictural." ["If he seeks the same angle of view on the animal as Gustave Doré, he dismisses all sense of fear. The bird wounded by an arrow is no longer a large migratory bird but the deliciously colored quail of still lifes. [...] Before [the animals among which we live], Delierre's eye is as cold as that of an entomologist. The art of the fable becomes in his work the finest example of pictorial naturalism."] A deluxe edition in two volumes: Fables de La Fontaine. Edition illustrée de 75 planches à l'eau-forte par A. Delierre, Paris, Quantin, 1883, is catalogued at the Bibliothèque Nationale. The etchings of the fables are before letters and enclosed in handsome Louis XVI frames."

Edition translated from the English version by S. Saito & E. Greey of this famous Japanese historical novel.
Work illustrated by Kei-Sai Yei-Sen.
Attractive illustrated cover.
Minor marginal lacks harmlessly affecting the margins of the first leaves.

Illustrated edition with 500 nature drawings by Georges Fraipont.
Half navy blue shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands showing very light traces of rubbing of no concern, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Handsome copy complete with its colored map.

First edition.
In original wrappers, blue cover with frontispiece ornament; some stains to front cover.
Contributions by Champfleury ("Forgotten Romantics: Siméon Chaumier"), Spire Blondel ("The writer's tools: the pencil") notably.
Journal divided into two sections: early bibliography and modern bibliography (foreign correspondences, questions of the day, reviews of recent books, bibliographical gazette, summary of French periodical publications).

First edition.
In original wrappers, blue cover with frontispiece ornament, some stains to front cover.
Contributions by Eugène Forgues ("Book illustrators of the 19th century: Jean-François Gigoux") among others.
Journal divided into two sections: early bibliography and modern bibliography (reviews of recent books, bibliographical gazette, summary of French periodical publications).

First edition.
In original wrappers, blue cover decorated with a frontispiece.
Review divided into two sections: ancient bibliography and modern bibliography (foreign correspondences, reviews of recent books, bibliographical gazette, summary of French periodical publications).

First edition.
In original wrappers, blue cover decorated with a frontispiece, front cover lightly stained.
Contributions by Eugène Forgues ("Les illustrateurs de livres au XIXe siècle : Camille Rogier"), Arthur Pougin ("La bibliothèque du conservatoire de musique") among others.
Review divided into two sections: ancient bibliography and modern bibliography (foreign correspondences, reviews of recent books, bibliographical gazette, summary of French periodical publications).

First edition.
In original wrappers, blue cover decorated with a frontispiece.
Contributions by E. Dutuit ("Quel est l'inventeur de l'imprimerie") notably.
Review divided into two sections: early bibliography and modern bibliography (foreign correspondence, reviews of recent books, bibliographical gazette, summary of French periodical publications).
This issue contains a black engraving hors-texte representing a binding.

First edition.
In original wrappers, blue cover decorated with a frontispiece.
Contributions by A. Chaudin ("Un nouveau document sur Gutemberg") among others.
Review divided into two sections: early bibliography and modern bibliography (foreign correspondence, reviews of recent books, bibliographical gazette, summary of French periodical publications).
This issue contains an etching hors-texte by Vogel.

First edition.
In original wrappers, blue cover decorated with a frontispiece, a few very light stains on the upper cover.
Contributions by Champfleury ("Les reliures romantiques"), Arsène Arüss ("Voyage à travers l'oeuvre de Dickens") among others.
Review divided into two sections: ancient bibliography and modern bibliography (foreign correspondences, reviews of recent books, bibliographical gazette, summary of French periodical publications).
This issue contains a color plate depicting a cathedral binding, as well as numerous wood engravings in the text.

First edition.
In original wrappers, blue cover decorated with a frontispiece. Contributions by L. Derome ("La première revue de Paris"), B.-H.-G. de Saint-Heraye ("Le premier journal bibliographique"), Octave Uzanne ("La bibliothèque d'un bibliophile") among others.
Review divided into two sections: ancient bibliography and modern bibliography (La bibliothèque d'un bibliophile, reviews of recent books, bibliographical gazette, summary of French periodical publications).
This issue contains a color plate depicting a cathedral binding, as well as numerous wood engravings in the text.

First edition.
In original wrappers, blue cover decorated with a frontispiece.
Review divided into two sections: ancient bibliography and modern bibliography (Reviews of recent books, bibliographic gazette, summary of French periodical publications).

First edition.
In original wrappers, blue cover decorated with a frontispiece.
Contributions by Emile Mahé ("Edition inconnue de la "Pucelle" de Voltaire"), Charles Glinel ("Alexandre Dumas et l'Académie française"), Meysenheim ("Les Bibliothèques publiques de la ville de New York") among others. Review divided into two sections: ancient bibliography and modern bibliography (Reviews of recent books, bibliographic gazette, summary of French periodical publications).
Illustration hors-texte: binding by Luc Cranach on a Catullus from 1536.

First edition.
In original wrappers, blue covers decorated with a frontispiece.
Contributions by L. Derôme ("Une édition originale de trois contes de La Fontaine"), Spire Blondel ("Les outils de l'écrivain : Le Cachet, la Cire à cacheter, les Enveloppes"). Review divided into two sections: early bibliography and modern bibliography (Reviews of recent books, bibliographical gazette, summary of French periodical publications).
Illustration hors-texte: La Lecture à Cythère, etching by Manesse, after the composition by Albert Lynch.

First edition.
In original wrappers, blue covers decorated with a frontispiece. Contributions by Charles Glinel ("Alexandre Dumas intime") among others.
Review divided into two sections: early bibliography and modern bibliography (Reviews of recent books, bibliographical gazette, summary of French periodical publications). Illustration hors-texte: Portrait of John-Murray II, publisher of Walter Scott - Sepia heliogravure.

First edition of this review directed by Octave Uzanne.
Articles respectively signed L.B., Eugène Forgues, Arthur Pougin.
Engravings in and outside the text by Camille Rogier.
Front cover soiled, otherwise good copy.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Japan paper, the only deluxe copies.
Half red shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands set with blind fillets showing traces of rubbing, gilt fillet frames on marbled paper boards, corners slightly bumped, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt.
Work illustrated with 118 lithographic compositions of oil paintings, watercolors, sepias and unpublished drawings by Charlet.

First edition.
Numerous illustrations to texte, foxing.

First edition printed in 102 copies, ours one of the 100 on laid paper, of this offprint from 'Le Livre' of March 10, 1885.
With frontispiece engraved portrait of the author, in-text illustrations.
A small lack at foot of spine, an angular lack to second board, otherwise a handsome copy.