Woodcuts, intaglio, lithographs, miniatures... From medieval illuminated manuscripts to livres d'artiste, the art of illustration began with the book and reinvents itself with it on every page of their history.
Album of lithographed plates in third state, first cover printed in 3 tones, black, bistre with gradients and white highlights, followed by 24 lithographs in black on 12 double-sided pages.
Gray half calf binding, smooth spine, some foxing, original soft cover preserved, binding signed by Charles Septier.
Created in 1851, this youthful work influenced by Rodolphe Töppfer's style, is now considered an incunabulum of comic strips.
20 full-page lithographs in black by Gustave Doré, in second state.
Red half oblong Bradel-style cloth binding, smooth spine, black morocco title label, marbled paper boards, beige paper endpapers and flyleaves, corners slightly dulled.
2 frontispieces and 12 numbered engravings bound at rear of the second volume.
Small lack of paper to upper right corner and marginal restoration to the first volume's title page. Minor foxing, a light halo to the right margin of each of the 12 engravings at rear of the second volume.
Red half morocco binding, smooth spines with arabesques motifs in gilt, marbled paper boards, snags and rubbing to boards and edges, corners bent.
The book was first published as The Universal Cook in London in 1792; its fourth edition was translated into French...
First issue of this spectacular edition of The Imitation of Christ, published by Léon Curmer in 1856-1857 and conceived throughout in imitation of illuminated manuscripts. The volume comprises 437 chromolithographed pages, each set within a broad polychrome border heightened with gold and almost always different; facing pages are frequently designed to answer one another decoratively. Five compositions occupy a full page, and all leaves are mounted on guards. The separately published Appendix of 1858 is not present.
First edition of Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui (33 issues lacking out of 469). Five volumes bound in light blue half-cloth, smooth spines, blue morocco title labels decorated with double filets, marbled paper boards (4 volumes). The color title pages have been preserved and bound in. Marginal tears without damage to the text (no. 163; no. 165; no. 184, p. 2). Marginal restorations without damage to text on 8 leaves between nos. 214 and 223. Two leaves of no. 224 backed. Marginal tear with some paper missing (no. 345, p.1). Format of quires in the first volume varies; some are trimmed more than others.
First edition of Les Femmes du jour, very rare complete collection...
