Oeuvres Choisies de Gavarni
by GAVARNI, Paul [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier]
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Paris: J. Hetzel, 1846. A Remarkable Survival
GAVARNI, Paul, illustrator. Oeuvres Choisies de Gavarni. Revues, corrigées et nouvellemant classées par l'Auteur. Études de Moeurs Contemporaines. Paris: J. Hetzel, 1846.
First Collected Edition. Two octavo volumes (10 7/16 x 7 1/4 inches; 265 x 184 mm.).
Lithograph frontispiece, [xii], 39 plates; [iv], 5 plates; [iv], 25 plates; [iv], 11 plates, [2, list of plates].
[viii], 48 plates; [iv], 19 plates; [iv], 13 plates, [2, list of plates], [2, advertisements]. Each of the seven title pages with a vignette. A total of 160 wood engraved plates + wood engraved frontispiece and 7 wood engraved vignette title-pages.
Publisher's blue cloth, covers ruled in blind and elaborately decorated in gilt, spines with titles and elaborate gilt decoration, yellow coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Fine and untouched copies of the first two (of four) volumes of this first collected edition. Two further volumes were published two years later in 1848.
Contents: Les Enfants Terribles; Traduction en Langue Vulgaire; Les Lorettes; Les Actrices [and] Fourberies de Femmes en Matière de Sentiment; Clichy; Paris le Soir.
GAVARNI, Paul, illustrator. Oeuvres Choisies de Gavarni. Revues, corrigées et nouvellemant classées par l'Auteur. Études de Moeurs Contemporaines. Paris: J. Hetzel, 1846.
First Collected Edition. Two octavo volumes (10 7/16 x 7 1/4 inches; 265 x 184 mm.).
Lithograph frontispiece, [xii], 39 plates; [iv], 5 plates; [iv], 25 plates; [iv], 11 plates, [2, list of plates].
[viii], 48 plates; [iv], 19 plates; [iv], 13 plates, [2, list of plates], [2, advertisements]. Each of the seven title pages with a vignette. A total of 160 wood engraved plates + wood engraved frontispiece and 7 wood engraved vignette title-pages.
Publisher's blue cloth, covers ruled in blind and elaborately decorated in gilt, spines with titles and elaborate gilt decoration, yellow coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Fine and untouched copies of the first two (of four) volumes of this first collected edition. Two further volumes were published two years later in 1848.
Contents: Les Enfants Terribles; Traduction en Langue Vulgaire; Les Lorettes; Les Actrices [and] Fourberies de Femmes en Matière de Sentiment; Clichy; Paris le Soir.
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- David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (US)
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- Title
- Oeuvres Choisies de Gavarni
- Author
- GAVARNI, Paul [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
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- Publisher
- Paris: J. Hetzel, 1846
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