[BON GENRE]

Lot 245
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Prix de départ
£ 12 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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Lot 245 | [BON GENRE]
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£ 12 000 – 18 000
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Observations sur les modes et les usages de Paris, pour server d’explication aux 115 caricatures publiées sous le titre de Bon Genre, depuis le commencement di dix-neuvième siècle. Paris: chez l’editeur [de Crapelet], Boulevart Montmartre, 1827.

Very attractive copy of the third edition, rare complete. The work was first published in 1817 with 104 plates, it was then expanded by 11 plates in the second edition, and reprinted for a third time in 1827. The magnificent caricatures depict not only the dresses and the excesses of fashion of the time but also public entertainments such as acrobats walking the tightrope, dancing dogs, sword acrobats, and giant sledges. All plates carry the title ‘Le Bon Genre’, and date from 1801-1822. Some of the captions have been changed from the first edition [cf. Vicaire] but in some copies the editor has included first issue plates, which he still held in his stock. The first edition was edited by Pierre de la Mesangere who had published these plates from 1801 and then formed them into a collection. Bobins III, 934; Colas 2241; Lipperheide Xe 340; Vicaire I, 842; Ray, The French Illustrated Book, p.141; Rahir 332.



Folio (370 x 270mm). Half title, title,115 engraved plates, coloured by a contemporary hand, on thick papier velin, Gatine, Schencker and others after Vernet, Lanté, Dutailly, Isabey and others, up to plate 50 they are headed and numbered below the image and titled above, from plate 50 on this is inverted, plate 16 with a double, loosely inserted, a variant (a few plates with scattered light spotting). Contemporary half crimson straight grained morocco over marbled boards, flat spine ruled and lettered in gilt (extremities rubbed, a few scuff marks).





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