Fourberies de femmes Aubert et Cie | Paris [1840] | 27 x 34 cm 52 lithographs bound together in half shagreen
Full sets of 52 original lithographs hand-colored and heightened with gum arabic, first printing. These engravings were initially published in La Caricature.Contemporary binding in half brown shagreen, spine lightly faded. Upper corners lightly damaged, margins and spine ends a little rubbed.
Some discreet foxing mainly on the first board. A worm hole filled with a piece of paper on the lower margin of the twenty-first print. Plate 38 is little shorter than the others on the external margin.
A nice copy of this famous gallery of maneaters.