Lithographie originale en noir et blanc - Les Bons Bourgeois - "Mais si, ma femme, je t'assure que ce monsieur dessine un paysage..."
Delteil, 876.
Handsome copy despite some minimal marginal worming.

Collection assembled by an anonymous hand of chromolithographs and engravings. Numerous pages with various frames, Gothic and ornamental, intended to receive engravings. Frontispiece in chromolithography heightened with colors. The papers intended to receive drawings, engravings or chromos are of various colors: blue, green, cream, pink. The collection ends with music sheets that have remained blank.
English publisher's binding in full burgundy shagreen. Smooth spine decorated with a large ornamental Romantic plaque. Boards with a central raised rectangle decorated with a large stamp with the inscription: Album orné, blind-stamped frame. Rich Renaissance frieze in...
First and only edition published of this remarkable set of 15 original lithographs from the post-impressionist painter George William Thornley, only 100 copies printed.
Publisher's portfolio bound in boards very skilfully restored.
14 of the 15 lithographs are printed in colour (black, blue, green, mauve and different browns) on broadside China paper laid on pale blue thick paper, one is directly printed on thick paper.
All except the last, bear the stamp of Thornley's signature with the words “Chez Mrs Boussod & Valadon – 19 Bd Montmartre” and “Imp. Becquet frères à Paris”.
“In 1888, George William Thornley was commissioned to produce a series of lithographs based on the...
First edition of these 102 plates heightened in colors.
Modern cream-colored paper boards with gilt floral motif by Thomas Boichot, black morocco title label to spine. Ex libris of the "Fashion Group of Paris" on pastedown.
A little worming to first plate, the other plates very fresh.
A nicely bound copy.