Lot 127
  • 127

Gavarni, Sulpice Guillaume Chevallier, called

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7,000 - 10,000 USD
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A fine group of 6 works (including 1 duplicate) in 10 volumes, including Carteret's own copy of Le Diable à Paris, as follows:



Album Comique par Gavarni [Wrapper title, headline title:] Clichy. Paris: [Aubert, Bauger], Destouches, [1840-1841]. Folio, 21 hand-colored lithographed plates heightened with gum arabic; a few plates lightly browned, minor marginal spotting, original buff printed wrappers. In 1835 Gavarni was arrested for debt and sent to Clichy prison, providing a fresh opportunity for observation (see Ray, French, p. 217) — Souvenirs de Carnaval. Paris: [Aubert for Bauger], n.d. [1846-1847]. Folio, 9 lithographed plates in two states before letter colored and after letters uncolored; some marginal spotting, later three-quarter green cloth, gilt-stamped maroon morocco title label on upper cover, library stamp "Dance Archives Col.: L.E. Kirstein" — Méry, Joseph. Les Joyaux Fantaisie par Gavarni Texte par Méry Minérologie des Dames par le Conte Foelix. Paris: G. de Gonet,[1850], [With:] Les parures ... Paris: G. de Gonet, [1850]. 2 volumes, 8vo, 16 and 15 hand-colored steel-engraved plates printed on lace paper; a few minor marginal spots, contemporary dark-blue morocco, gilt-ruled borders on covers; extremities worn. Ray, French 209A & 210. — Le Diable à Paris. Paris et les Parisiens ... Texte par M.M. George Sand, P.-J. Stahl ... Paris: J. Hetzel, 1845-1846. 2 volumes, 8vo, 211 wood-engraved plates mostly after Gavarni, hand-colored and heightened with gum arabic, contemporary red pebbled cloth ruled in gilt and blind, with a watercolor signed by Gavarni tipped into the first free endpaper, L. Carteret's copy with his signed bibliographical note above the watercolor, mentioned in his Trésor III, p. 207, gilt-stamped bookplate of R. Descamps Scrive — Another copy, uncolored, in publisher's green patterned cloth with pictorial gilt-stamped covers — Oeuvres Choisies de Gavarni. Paris: J. Hetzel, 1846-1848. 8vo, 4 volumes bound in two, 320 wood engravings all hand-colored, modern three-quarter straight-grain morocco and marbled boards. Ray, French 207; Carteret III, 260-262.

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