GAVARNI -- MÉRY, François Joseph Pierre André Les Parures. Fantaisie par Gavarni . Paris: G. de Gonet, [1850]. 8° (282 x 190mm). Half-title. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, and 15 engraved plates by Geoffroy after Gavarni, each in 2 states, one hand-coloured and with filigree border, the other uncoloured on chine appliqué , with tissue guards. (Some light spotting.) Contemporary vellum gilt, uncut. FIRST EDITION. Vicaire V, 770 -- F. J. P. A. MÉRY. Les Joyaux. Fantaisie par Gavarni. Paris: G. de Gonet, [1850]. 8° (282 x 190mm). Half-title. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece in duplicate, 15 engraved plates by Geoffroy after Gavarni, each in 2 states, one hand-coloured and with filigree border, the other uncoloured and on chine appliqué , with tissue guards. (Occasional light spotting.) Contemporary vellum gilt, uncut. Provenance : Coloured art nouveau bookplate with motto "Librorum flos illibatus" in both works; earlier bookplate of Albert Pascal in the second work only. FIRST EDIITON. Vicaire V, 770 -- [Victor HUGO (1802-65). Les Enfans Terribles. Paris: 1838-42.] 4° (335 x 260mm). 47 hand-coloured lithographed plates only after Gavarni (of 49), heightened with gum arabic, numbered 1-47. (Without title, plate 19 with repair at outer margin, plate 36 with lower outer corner torn away, occasional light spotting or soiling of margins.) Later marbled boards backed in brown morocco and with morocco lettering-piece on upper cover, spine gilt (but rubbed). Beraldi VII, p. 51; Ray French 152. Together with Les Française peints par eux-mèmes (Paris: L. Curmer, 1843-40-42, 9 volumes, 4°, mixed edition), Garvarni's Oeuvres Choisies (Paris: J. Hetzel, 1846, 4 volumes, 8°), Eugène Süe's Le Juif Errant (Paris: Paulin, 1845, 4 volumes, 8°), and 4 other works illustrated by Gavarni. (24)
GAVARNI -- MÉRY, François Joseph Pierre André Les Parures. Fantaisie par Gavarni . Paris: G. de Gonet, [1850]. 8° (282 x 190mm). Half-title. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, and 15 engraved plates by Geoffroy after Gavarni, each in 2 states, one hand-coloured and with filigree border, the other uncoloured on chine appliqué , with tissue guards. (Some light spotting.) Contemporary vellum gilt, uncut. FIRST EDITION. Vicaire V, 770 -- F. J. P. A. MÉRY. Les Joyaux. Fantaisie par Gavarni. Paris: G. de Gonet, [1850]. 8° (282 x 190mm). Half-title. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece in duplicate, 15 engraved plates by Geoffroy after Gavarni, each in 2 states, one hand-coloured and with filigree border, the other uncoloured and on chine appliqué , with tissue guards. (Occasional light spotting.) Contemporary vellum gilt, uncut. Provenance : Coloured art nouveau bookplate with motto "Librorum flos illibatus" in both works; earlier bookplate of Albert Pascal in the second work only. FIRST EDIITON. Vicaire V, 770 -- [Victor HUGO (1802-65). Les Enfans Terribles. Paris: 1838-42.] 4° (335 x 260mm). 47 hand-coloured lithographed plates only after Gavarni (of 49), heightened with gum arabic, numbered 1-47. (Without title, plate 19 with repair at outer margin, plate 36 with lower outer corner torn away, occasional light spotting or soiling of margins.) Later marbled boards backed in brown morocco and with morocco lettering-piece on upper cover, spine gilt (but rubbed). Beraldi VII, p. 51; Ray French 152. Together with Les Française peints par eux-mèmes (Paris: L. Curmer, 1843-40-42, 9 volumes, 4°, mixed edition), Garvarni's Oeuvres Choisies (Paris: J. Hetzel, 1846, 4 volumes, 8°), Eugène Süe's Le Juif Errant (Paris: Paulin, 1845, 4 volumes, 8°), and 4 other works illustrated by Gavarni. (24)
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