Ces amours d'enfans - Joies et douceurs de la paternité

DAUMIER Honoré & BELIN Auguste & PLATTIER Jules & PLATEL Henri-Daniel
Ces amours d’enfans – Joies et douceurs de la paternité
[Children. The Pleasures of Paternity]
Chez Aubert & Cie, Paris 1850, 25 x 16,5 cm, later half morocco
First edition of this series of sixteen lithographs by Daumier, Belin, Platel and Plattier watercolored and heightened with varnish and guarded, from the Croquis d’expression [Expressive sketches] published in Charivari in 1838-1839.
Later half black morocco over cloth boards, the spine with four large blindtooled fillets with a very discreet tear, endpapers and pastedowns of white moiré cloth.
Illustrated wrapper preserved, with a few discreet repairs. A few plates very lightly soiled.
$ 3 800