Antique caricatures, satirical prints and drawings, illustrated newspapers, first edition albums, caricature portraits

Original black and white lithograph in second state, created for Le Charivari and printed on heavy paper.
Delteil, 2232.
Light foxing throughout the plate.

Original lithograph in second state, colored and gum arabic highlights created for the journal La Caricature.
Delteil, 422.
Paper slightly yellowed, otherwise handsome copy.

Original black and white lithograph, second state, created for Le Charivari and printed on heavy paper.
Delteil, 2242.
A good copy despite shadowing from a former mat and a tiny tear without loss to the upper right margin.

Original black and white lithograph, second state, created for Le Charivari and printed on heavy paper.
Delteil, 2220.
A good copy despite very light marginal foxing.

Original black and white lithograph in second state, created for Le Charivari and printed on heavy paper.
Delteil, 2227.
Handsome copy despite marginal foxing.

Original black and white lithograph created for Le Charivari and printed on thick paper.
Delteil, 876.
Handsome copy despite some minimal marginal worming.

Original black and white lithograph in second state, created for Le Charivari and printed on heavy paper.
Delteil, 596.
Good copy despite some marginal foxing to verso and a small pale corner dampstain not touching the plate.

First edition in French.
Publisher's full blue cloth binding, spine decorated with compartments and blind fillets, blind fillet border on boards, yellow paper endpapers and pastedowns, small discoloration spots on spine and boards.
Scattered foxing.
Work illustrated with 238 figures in the text.

First edition of this violently anti-Gaullist review.
Handsome copy.
Issue illustrated with drawings by Wolinski, Reiser, Cabu, Siné, Malsen, Topor.

First edition of this violently anti-Gaullist magazine.
Handsome copy.
Issue containing two songs by Eugène Pottier, which was printed during the 1968 strikes and decorated with illustrations by Siné, Flip, Malsen, Wolinski.

Original lithograph in first state, in colors and gum arabic, created for the series entitled L'Exposition universelle.
Delteil, 1767.
Very handsome copy free from all foxing and with brilliant colors.

First edition illustrated with numerous unpublished drawings in black and in color by Albert Guillaume, Ferdinand Bac, Albert Robida, Lucien Métivet, Jean-Louis Forain, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, Job, Charles Léandre, Hermann Paul, Benjamin Rabier, Charles Huard, Henry Gerbault, Abel Faivre, Paul Balluriau...
Publisher’s decorated binding in full cloth, smooth spine decorated with a green floral motif, bevelled boards, the upper cover illustrated by Lucien Métivet showing the masked faces of most of the illustrators of this volume and, above them, a society lady manipulating these caricatures with strings like puppets, endpapers and pastedowns of blue paper slightly discoloured at...

First edition illustrated by Tony Johannot, second part of the story of Jérôme Patureau, the first being: Jérôme Patureau à la recherche d'une position sociale, illustrated by Grandville. 30 plates outside the text and 200 wood-engraved vignettes in the text.
Half old-red straight-grained morocco binding, near-contemporary, signed on the first marbled endpaper by Prosper Charon. Spine with flat false raised bands decorated with ornate compartments with black framing around the compartments and emphasizing the bands. Elegant binding. Rubbing to boards, edges and corners. Scattered foxing, mainly in the margins, on good white paper.
Rare illustrated covers preserved. The frontispiece...

First separate edition, illustrated by Gavarni with 20 plates and 40 vignettes. The text had originally appeared in Le diable à Paris, a collective volume to which Balzac contributed several texts.
First edition of Louis Huart's work illustrated with 50 vignettes by Cham, published without date in 1846.
Contemporary half red shagreen binding. Spine with false raised bands handsomely decorated. Head and tail rolls. Corners slightly rubbed, one turned in. Some pale foxing on half-titles and indexes. Tinted paper for Paris marié, white for Paris au bal. Good copy.
Satirical and humorous writings in the style of physiologies.

First edition of this complete year consisting of 52 issues published between January 6 and December 29, 1887, twentieth year.
Contemporary half blue cloth binding, spine decorated with seven blind fillets, gilt title and date, marbled paper boards.
Cloth rubbed and frayed at head and foot of spine. A tear without loss to inner lower margin of first endpaper. Lower corners of bottom board damaged with small loss.
Comic-finance was edited by Ernest Schrameck.

First edition and first printing of the 320 wood engravings. Publication of the 4 volumes from 1846 to 1848, which explains why they are found separately.
Contributions by Théophile Gautier, Laurent-Jan, Léon Gozlan, Auguste Lireux and Jules Hetzel under the pseudonym P.-J. Stahl among others.
Contemporary half black shagreen bindings. Flat false raised bands spine decorated with ornate compartments. Gilt titles and volume labels. Gilt edges. Blind ruling frame on boards. A. Gaillard at foot. Roulettes on bands. Very fine gold and grey decorative endpapers. Pale scattered foxing on very white paper.
Work illustrated with a general frontispiece, 14 vignettes including one...

First printing of Grandville's illustration. A frontispiece on flying China paper and 450 wood-engraved vignettes in-text, and 5 hors texte, the four titles of the four voyages and the literary allegory as frontispiece to the notice. New translation, biographical and literary notice on Jonathan Swift by Walter Scott.
Contemporary grey glazed calf half-binding in Romantic style. Smooth spine with a long Romantic tool and 2 mirrored tools, with fillets. Light traces of rubbing. Some scattered foxing, mainly marginal. Handsome copy.
"This complete illustration occupies one of the first ranks in Grandville's work." (Carteret, III, 578). This very beautiful illustrated Romantic work is...

New edition. The earliest we have been able to trace is that held by the Sainte-Geneviève library, from 1589, in Vicenza. The work has been attributed in turn to Buoni and to Vialardi, without certainty.
Early 19th-century half green sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with fillets. Green sheep title label. One hole at foot. Overall rubbed. Trace of pale dampstaining at bottom of page on preliminary leaves and reappearing on some leaves.
Statutes of the Company of Miserliness founded on avarice. These are based on all possible ways of economizing, whether through food (cutting wine with water) or for example in writing (not putting dots on i's to save ink), etc. After having...

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe copy and first printing of Albert Robida's illustrations.
Fine copy.
Work illustrated with large compositions forming frames around each page by Albert Robida.

Rodolphe TÖPFFER & CHAM
Mr. Cryptogame [Mr Bachelor Butterfly]
Imprimerie Levé [Garnier] | Paris n. d. [c. 1870]| 28 x 19.5 cm | publisher's binding
New Garnier edition. 64 pages of illustrations. The unique collaboration between the two inventors of comic books.
Publisher's illustrated cloth in full red glazed calico, spine decorated at the top and bottom with gilt fillets and motifs with a gilt title, boards framed with black fillets and arabesques, the first with a large golden illustration in the centre, original blue endpapers, all edges gilt.
The upper spine end very slightly lifting, top joint of the upper board a...

First edition of the text of Albert Robida illustrated by his daughter Emilie, one of 275 numbered copies on vellum, only large paper after 25 on Imperial paper of Japan.
Signed autographs of Albert and Emilie Robida to E. Fargeau. Albert Robida repeated the name of the addressee, a certain L. (Eopold?) Carteret.

6 and 9 of Clubs
[France c. 1860] | 5.5 x 8.6 cm
In the light, the transparent cards reveal humorous erotic scenes:
– 6 of Clubs: a lapping dog pleasures a lady stretched out with her dresses lifted up.
– 9 of Clubs: foreplay of a naked couple sitting on the edge of a bed.

Secret erotic playing cards - Three of Clubs
[France] s.d(circa 1860), 5.5 x 8.6 cm, one playing card
Secret erotic playing card, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around the 1860s. Lithograph coloured by stencil, white verso.
In the light, the transparent card reveals an erotic scene: a chimney sweep in a hat and clogs, hard like a stag, assaults a lady sitting on a chair, dressed hitched up, who tries to withstand him.
A curiosity!

Disguised erotic playing cards – Four aces
[France ca 1860] | 5.5 x 8.6 cm | 4 playing cards
Disguised erotic playing cards, maker unknown, produced in France circa 1860. Lithographs colored with stencil, versos blank.
In the light, the transparent cards reveal humorous erotic scenes:
- Ace of Spades: an intellectual, with a beard and glasses, sharpens the tip of his virile member on a grindstone driven by a young, naked woman while another, at the same stone, brandishes a pair of scissors.
- Ace of Hearts: a clothed man flees, straddling his monstrous member, before two laughing, exhibitionist and flatulist young ladies.
- Ace of Diamonds: a good nun, dressed...

Edition decorated with original color illustrations and borders, including 10 full-page, by Albert Robida, and printed in 100 numbered copies on handmade vellum, ours one of 50 nominative copies, that of Charles Meunier.
Bradel binding in full paper, smooth spine, red morocco title label, handmade paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, binding signed P. Goy & C. Vilaine.
Rare and handsome copy.

First edition, one of 12 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies.
A full-margined copy.
Spine creased, a small lack to head of second board, light tears to margins of certain leaves at the deckled edges.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece on Japan paper by Charles Léandre and drawings in and out of text by Henri Gaston Darien, Henri Charles Auguste Gounin, Jean-Louis Fernand Fau, Charles Léandre, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, David Ossipovitch Widhopff and Adolphe Willette.

Extremely rare first edition of the fourth issue of the humorous journal entitled Jonas : petit observateur des lettres et des arts, which ran for 5 issues between January and July 1952.
Two vertical creases and a stain on the first cover.
The review was directed and probably composed largely by François Caradec, writer regent of the Collège de Pataphysique and member of the Oulipo.

Rare first edition of the first issue of the artistic review L'omnibus de Corinthe, one of the copies printed on ordinary paper.
Traces of folds having caused tears.
The cover is by Edouard Couturier.
L'Omnibus de Corinthe (subtitled "illustrated vehicle of general ideas") is an illustrated supplement to the review La Critique created by the Nabi painter Marc Mouclier. In total, twelve fascicles executed in lithographic pencil and printed in zincography by Eugène de Solenière were published every three months starting from October 1896. They are today extremely rare and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France - which possesses a...

Rare first edition of the second issue of the artistic review L'omnibus de Corinthe, one of the copies printed on ordinary paper.
Traces of folds having caused tears.
The cover is designed by Henri Gustave Jossot.
L'Omnibus de Corinthe (subtitled "illustrated vehicle of general ideas") is an illustrated supplement to the review La Critique created by the Nabi painter Marc Mouclier. In total, twelve fascicules created with lithographic crayon and printed in zincography by Eugène de Solenière were published every three months starting from October 1896. They are today extremely rare and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France - which...

Extremely rare and humoristic menu pamphlet from the “souper démocratique” “democratic supper” organised by the République de Montmartre, newly founded in 1921. The date shown is a parody of the republican calendar: "17 Neigeôse, An I".
A magnificent original wood engraving, representing the Communards on the Montmartre hill and bearing the monogram “Armand,” adorns the first board.
In the spirit of the Paris Commune, the République de Montmartre was created in the early 1920s by the Parisian artists Joé Bridge, Adolphe Willette, Jean-Louis Forain, Francisque Poulbot, Maurice Neumont, Louis Morin, Maurice Millière, Raoul Guérin and Jules Depaquit. Their parties and banquets, often...

Very rare prospectus for the banquet of the Republic of Montmartre, organized at the Moulin de la Galette on November 6, 1931.
In the upper part, there is a beautiful original print signed Francisque Poulbot representing the citizens of the Republic of Montmartre returning from vacation.
In the spirit of the Paris Commune, the Republic of Montmartre was created in 1921 by Parisian artists Joé Bridge, Adolphe Willette, Jean-Louis Forain, Francisque Poulbot, Maurice Neumont, Louis Morin, Maurice Milliere, Raoul Guerin and Jules Depaquit . His parties and banquets, often organized in the mythical places of Montmartre (Moulin de la Galette, Circus Medrano, Moulin...

First edition illustrated with 43 plates including a frontispiece and a title-frontispiece (all plates are bound consecutively, after the preliminary pages, half-title, title page, preface and table of contents). MCCCXXXVII on title page. The plates bear no captions; the first 27 have pagination at bottom of page, the following bear no indication and appear to be before lettering (with pencil pagination notation). Our volume possesses several features attesting to the very first printing: Line 29 p. 260: "holding"; p. 341 line 1: "inbe-licate"; p. 342 line 5: "S. Veller"; p. 432 the F of Posthumous papers of is poorly printed. The engraved title is in second state with Tony Weller's name...

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe issue.
Work illustrated with 90 black and white drawings by Carlègle.
As preface, a curious "unpublished text" by Gustave Flaubert.
Very handsome copy as issued, retaining its deckled edges.

Mary Hamilton - Le Café Concert
An original print by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec from the Le Café-Concert series, published by Publications de l'Estampe Originale. A very rare and handsome lithograph, one of 500 original proofs printed on vélin paper by Edouard Ancourt printers.
Portrait of Mary Hamilton by Toulouse-Lautrec. This cabaret singer is here presented in full flow, dressed in men's clothes. Lautrec was fond at this time of lithographic ink, drawing simple lines full of movement, reminiscent of Japanese ukiyo-e prints.
A veritable ode to the café-concert, this series by Toulouse-Lautrec and Henri-Gabriel Ibels captures the essence of the Parisian...

Original print by Henri de Toulouse, from the series Le Café-Concert published by the Publications de l'Estampe Originale. Very rare and beautiful lithography is one of the 500 original proofs drawn on vellum by Edouard Ancourt's printing press.

Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
Aristide Bruant – Original print from
Le Café-Concert
L'Estampe originale | Paris 1893 | 31.5 x 43 cm | one leaf
Original print by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec from the Le Café-Concert series, published by Publications de l'Estampe Originale. Very rare and beautiful lithograph forming part of 500 original proofs printed on vellum by Edouard Ancourt's printing house.
A few angular lacks.
Portrait by Toulouse-Lautrec of Aristide Bruant, a huge figure in the Belle Epoque music-hall and close friend of the artist, to whom he ordered cabaret posters that remain well-known. Singer, actor, and performer, he acquired his fame at...

Original print by Henri de Toulouse, from the series Le Café-Concert published by the Publications de l'Estampe Originale. Very rare and beautiful lithography is one of the 500 original proofs drawn on vellum by Edouard Ancourt's printing press.

Original print by Henri de Toulouse, from the series Le Café-Concert published by the Publications de l'Estampe Originale. Very rare and beautiful lithography is one of the 500 original proofs drawn on vellum by Edouard Ancourt's printing press.

(Maurice BLANCHOT)
Extraordinary collection of Maurice Blanchot's original photographs taken in the family setting, the only printings
C. 1907-2003 | 272 photographs | various format
“Blanchot challenged photographers and caricaturists of the literary press for a long-time. His 'portraits', over so many years, are minimalist and rare: in 1962 in L'Express, a hand holds up a book, at the bottom of the page; in 1979, in Libération, a blank square is in the middle of the page, with only Maurice Blanchot's name and a quote from the Entretien infini as a caption: ‘an empty universe: nothing that was visible, nothing that was invisible'” (C...

Completely revised edition, with some parts in first edition, both for texts and illustrations. Introduction by Jules Janin and texts by Balzac, La bedollière, Charles Nodier, Frédéric Soulié, Petrus Borel... with in-text and full-page illustrations by Grandville, Daubigny, Pauquet, Français, Bertall, Johannot, Daumier, Bayard... Printed in double columns.
Contemporary half brown shagreen bindings. Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 fleurons. Title and volume labels in chocolate morocco. Rubbing to headcaps and raised bands, boards, edges and corners. Spines slightly lightened. Corners slightly bumped. Some foxing, mainly in margins, some signatures browned, but overall paper...

New edition revised, corrected and newly classified by the author.
Half brown shagreen binding, spine with four false raised bands, decorated with triple compartments stamped in blind
Suite of captioned engravings accompanied by notices at the head of each series by MM. Théophile Gautier & Laurent-Jan.

First edition.
Bradel binding in half sienna cloth, smooth spine, dark chocolate brown shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, covers and spine preserved, contemporary binding.
Work illustrated with 300 black facsimiles as well as 12 color plates.
Cover illustrated with a drawing by Adolphe Willette.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Half brown sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, some rubbing to surface and corners slightly worn.
Each issue consists of 16 pages and a color cover.
Numerous drawings, sometimes double-page, by Métivet, Poulbot, Huard, Rouveyre, Jeanniot, Léandre, Cappiello, Ostoya, Caran d'Ache, Steinlen, among others.
Le Rire was a humorous weekly that appeared during the Belle Époque, published from October 1894 until the 1950s.

First edition.
Half sheep binding in fir green, spine with five raised bands decorated with four gilt fleurons, paste paper boards, some rubbing to surface.
Contributions by Paul Courty, Pierre Véron, Léon Audibert, etc.
Drawings by Pif, Henriot, Grévin and Draner notably.
Le Charivari was a French daily satirical illustrated newspaper, which appeared from 1832 to 1937. Founded in 1832, under the reign of Louis-Philippe, by the republican journalist Charles Philipon, it quickly became a means of communication for the opposition, in the same mocking spirit as the weekly La Caricature created in 1830. It energetically ridiculed the July Monarchy and the bourgeoisie and...

First edition.
Publisher's binding in full red and black boards, smooth spine, covers illustrated with a central decorative medallion, all edges gilt.
Album abundantly illustrated with caricatures.
Some light foxing of no consequence, one small tear to one edge.

Second edition by Garnier in a new expanded format, after the first by Delloye in 1843, in 125 installments of 4 leaves comprising a notice, the score and 4 recto-verso pages of steel engravings (extraordinary compositions framing the song text), in addition to three frontispieces. Illustrations by Trimollet, Daubigny, Meissonnier... The first edition by Delloye contained only 84 installments and songs. Printed on heavy laid paper.
Half dark green morocco binding with corners signed Niedrée at foot. Spine with raised bands ornately decorated in grotesque style with stylized wavelets. Top edges gilt. Thin split to upper joint at head of volume 1 and at foot of volume 3. 2 corners of...

First edition of the complete series comprising 17 issues.
Each issue contains 44 pages and is illustrated with a bicolor lithograph by Marcolon, E. Tap, Charlereal and Georges Bergère.
Some covers detached and occasional foxing.
Left-wing journal in the continuity of le Grand guignol whose publication ended on February 22, 1922, le Guignol illustré is a semi-monthly satirical illustrated publication published exclusively under pseudonyms. It was created by Maurice Brivet and publishes articles on politico-economic scandals and moral affairs of the time. It is also an engaged journal which was at the origin of numerous campaigns led against banks and colonial companies...

First edition.
Cover illustrated by Paul Iribe, unsigned illustration of the central double page, drawings by Cocteau.
Le Mot is an illustrated weekly magazine directed by Paul Iribe assisted by Jean Cocteau. The illustrations adopt, most of the time, a satirical and strongly anti-German tone. It is in this magazine that Jean Cocteau publishes drawings under the pseudonym of Jim - the name of his dog.
Cover detached, paper yellowed as is often the case, some foxing and tears to the first cover.
The copy is complete with its subscription slip.

First edition.
Cover illustrated by Paul Iribe, grand poem on three pages by Jean Cocteau.
Le Mot is an illustrated weekly magazine directed by Paul Iribe assisted by Jean Cocteau. The illustrations adopt, most of the time, a satirical and strongly anti-German tone. It is in this magazine that Jean Cocteau publishes drawings under the pseudonym of Jim - the name of his dog.
Paper yellowed as is often the case, some foxing to the first cover.

First edition.
Half red cloth binding, smooth spine decorated with fillets stamped in blind, light scuffs to the joints, marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
This weekly caricature magazine is richly illustrated by Raoul Thomen, Landelle, Jean d'Aurian, Poulbot, Edmond Guénin, Bogron, Vallet, Valéry Muller, Henry Muller, Léon Bardet, Haye, Ferdinand Bac, Ricardo Flores, Delannoy, Le Bocain, E. Tap, Gog, Malherbe, d'Albat... etc.
Each issue comprises eight pages, including large color drawings on the first and last pages and numerous black and white drawings.
A rare and handsome copy.

First edition.
Half red sheep binding, minor scuffs of no consequence to the spine which is decorated with gilt fillets, some surface wear, contemporary binding.
This weekly caricature magazine is richly illustrated by Raoul Thomen, Landelle, Jean d'Aurian, Poulbot, Edmond Guénin, Bogron, Vallet, Valéry Muller, Henry Muller, Léon Bardet, Haye, Ferdinand Bac, Ricardo Flores, Delannoy, Le Bocain, E. Tap, Gog, Malherbe, d'Albat, Schuster, Viriez, Gus Bofa, Alex, Zybalt, A. Ziem, Blondeau, Fertom... etc.
Each issue comprises eight pages, including large color drawings on the first and last pages and numerous black and white drawings.
A rare and handsome copy.

First edition.
Half red sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, some minor scuffing without significance on the marbled paper boards, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
This weekly caricature magazine is richly illustrated by Raoul Thomen, Landelle, Jean d'Aurian, Poulbot, Edmond Guénin, Bogron, Vallet, Valéry Muller, Henry Muller, Léon Bardet, Haye, Ferdinand Bac, Ricardo Flores, Delannoy, Le Bocain, E. Tap, Gog, Malherbe, d'Albat, Schuster, Viriez, Gus Bofa, Alex, Zybalt, A. Ziem, Blondeau, J. Cadet, Stick, Zilberty, Vosrie, Lenature, Bourguignon, Arthur Perrier, Brun, Jean Plumet, Arboult, Rose Maury, Sirdey, L. Forton, Fertom, Jako...

WILLETTE, Adolphe & OTHERS
Le Pierrot
Paris 1888 and 1889, 29 x 40 cm, unbound.
First edition.
An almost complete set of this rare satirical literary journal headed and illustrated by Adolphe Willette.
49 issues from 6 July 1888 to 20 September 1889, each comprising two folio leaves, the first page with a lithograph by Willette, some with caricatures on page three.
With Emile Goudeau as its editor-in-chief, this journal, nominally published on Fridays (though not always actually published then) includes poetry, ads, and news in brief, but its real value lies in the illustrations, done exclusively for it by Willette.
A little light foxing and small tears to margin not...

First edition illustrated with 29 plates, 24 headpieces and 89 in-text vignettes, by Gavarni, Huart, Guerin, all wood-engraved.
Contemporary half green shagreen. Spine with raised bands and gilt compartments. Rubbing to head and raised bands. Pale scattered foxing, irregular, sometimes not affecting the white paper at all, other times speckling the margins; overall, fairly little foxing.
Following in the tradition of the famous Diable à Paris, but with less prestigious writers, a satire of foreigners in Paris.
Handsome romantic illustrated work.

Lithograph on thick vélin paper printed in 300 numbered copies and signed in pencil by the artist.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Rives paper, deluxe copy.
Illustrations by Carb, Charlet, Pedro, Rafer and Roger Roy.
Index and tables at rear.
Copy in mint condition.

First edition.
A small trace of angular fold, not serious, to head of upper cover.
A good copy.

First edition.
A good copy.

First edition.
A pale dampstain to head of the first few pages, otherwise a handsome copy.

First collected edition, one of the numbered copies printed on hand press.
Bradel binding in half indigo boards, smooth spine faded, bronze sheep title-label, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, illustrated original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Work illustrated with 100 drawings by the author.

First edition.
Work decorated with numerous in-text illustrations as well as 31 plates, 15 of which are in color.
Spine marginally faded with some losses at one weakened joint, handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Illustrated pamphlet with 27 color caricatures.
Two small lacks at head and foot of spine, light interior foxing, stains and two minute holes to rear cover.
Rare.

First edition. Booklet illustrated with 27 black caricatures.
Two small lacks at head and foot of spine, light interior foxing.
Rare.

First edition.
Half bottle-green shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons, some wear to surface, small splits at foot of one joint, contemporary binding, handsome copy.
Le Charivari is a French illustrated satirical daily newspaper, which was published from 1832 to 1937. Founded in 1832, during the reign of Louis-Philippe, by the republican journalist Charles Philipon, it quickly became a means of communication for the opposition, in the same mocking spirit as the weekly La Caricature created in 1830. It enthusiastically ridiculed the July Monarchy and the bourgeoisie and was often condemned by the courts.
In 1858, the change in format of...

First edition.
Contemporary half blonde sheep binding, smooth rubbed spine decorated with triple gilt fillets, joints cracked on one side at head and foot.
Some tears and foxing.
54 discontinuous numbers for Monde comique (lacking nos. 95 to 98, 101, 102 to 113, 117, 119 to 152, 154 to 156, 158 to 166, 168 to 172, 174, 175, 177 to 182, 184, 187 to 195, 197 to 202, 205, 206, 208, 212, 214, 216, 224 to 229, 231, 240, 248, 251 to 254, 256 to 269 and 272 to 275) and 41 discontinuous numbers for Petit journal pour rire (nos. 116 to 176, 178 to 233, 236 to 265, 267, 270 to 283, 285 to 321, 322 to 364, 366 to 372, 375, 379, 384, 388 to 395, 397 to 402, 404, 405, 407, 409, 411...

First edition.
Publisher's binding in full boards, smooth spine, illustrated front cover.
Work illustrated with Gaullist and anti-Gaullist caricatures by the author.
One tear without loss pages 89-90, otherwise handsome copy.

First editions illustrated with drawings by Forain.
Texts by Armand Silvestre, Jean Richepin, Aurélien Scholl, Emile André...
Some light spotting and marginal tears without loss, otherwise handsome copies of this rare illustrated weekly review.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Twenty portraits of celebrities of the era drawn by Bib and satirized by Henri Béraud.
One fold affecting the front cover.
Rare.

First edition.
Special issue devoted to contemporary caricaturists including Cardon, César, Molinès, Le Foll...
Handsome copy.

First edition.

First edition published in a small number of copies on laid paper.
Cover illustrated with a caricature of H. Rochefort and as frontispiece, an engraved portrait of the same by Adrien Tournachon.
Small marginal tears with slight lack affecting the boards, otherwise handsome copy.
Rare.

First edition of this Montmartre magazine animated by Aristide Bruant.
Out of a total of 86, only numbers 1, 3 to 8, 29, 32 to 38 are missing, being 15 fascicles.
'La Lanterne de Bruant brings to the people what they want in everything: frankness and light. Let those who are not afraid of slang, the green and vigorous language of harsh truths, let those who are disgusted by all social filth read the Lanterne'.
Principal contributors: Aristide Bruant, Georges Courteline, Paul Alexis, Willy, Georges Loiseau, Michel Morphy.
The magazine contains numerous unpublished songs by Bruant and slang letters signed Bibi-chopin (Léon de Bercy).
Numerous illustrations by...

First edition.
Rare issue of this polemical review edited by Antoine Blondin and Pierre Boutang.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Henry Béraud's monthly pamphlet.
Pale ink stains to front cover, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition.

First edition.
Henry Béraud's monthly pamphlet.
Small wormholes to rear cover, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition published under a pseudonym, of which no deluxe copies are mentioned.
Joints cracked at foot, small tears and slight corner losses to boards, handsome interior condition free from foxing.