Gavarni - Perles et parures - 1850
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Two volumes in-8, Perles et parures, with Gavarni illustrations and Méry’s text, an 1850 illustrated first edition published by G. de Gonet, Martinon, Mme veuve Janet, bound in demi cuir rubis with gilt tooling and containing 647 pages.
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MÉRY, Joseph; GAVARNI, Paul; FOËLIX (cte) [RABAN, Louis-François]. Pearls and ornaments. The Jewels. Fantasy by Gavarni. Text by Méry. Mineralogy of Ladies by the Count Fœlix. [and] The Ornaments. Fantasy by Gavarni. Text by Méry. History of Fashion by the Count Fœlix. Paris, G. de Gonet, Martinon, Mme veuve Janet; Leipzig, Charles Twietmeyer, [1850]. 2 volumes in-8vo, 27.5 x 18.7 cm, [1] f., 316 pp., frontispiece and 16 plates; 300 pp., frontispiece and 15 plates, half-vel gradient ruby-gilt, of the period, spine adorned with four raised nerves, general and title leaves in black morocco, boards of debossed percaline, head ruled, not trimmed, illustrated cover. Beautiful condition, one bound-in; extremely light foxing.
Original edition of these valuable illustrated works in total with two identical frontispieces and 31 copper engravings by Geoffroy after Gavarni, in the first printing. Copy complete with the general covers printed in red, in a pleasant period binding and containing the colored plates of the time, printed on vellum paper with lace-cut frames. Carteret, III, 460; Vicaire V, 770-71.
Ex-libris Fondation Napoléon - Bibliothèque Martial Lapeyre, with a dry stamp (Artcurial sale of May 27, 2013, no. 45); K. Fritsch.
MÉRY, Joseph; GAVARNI, Paul; FOËLIX (cte) [RABAN, Louis-François]. Pearls and ornaments. The Jewels. Fantasy by Gavarni. Text by Méry. Mineralogy of Ladies by the Count Fœlix. [and] The Ornaments. Fantasy by Gavarni. Text by Méry. History of Fashion by the Count Fœlix. Paris, G. de Gonet, Martinon, Mme veuve Janet; Leipzig, Charles Twietmeyer, [1850]. 2 volumes in-8vo, 27.5 x 18.7 cm, [1] f., 316 pp., frontispiece and 16 plates; 300 pp., frontispiece and 15 plates, half-vel gradient ruby-gilt, of the period, spine adorned with four raised nerves, general and title leaves in black morocco, boards of debossed percaline, head ruled, not trimmed, illustrated cover. Beautiful condition, one bound-in; extremely light foxing.
Original edition of these valuable illustrated works in total with two identical frontispieces and 31 copper engravings by Geoffroy after Gavarni, in the first printing. Copy complete with the general covers printed in red, in a pleasant period binding and containing the colored plates of the time, printed on vellum paper with lace-cut frames. Carteret, III, 460; Vicaire V, 770-71.
Ex-libris Fondation Napoléon - Bibliothèque Martial Lapeyre, with a dry stamp (Artcurial sale of May 27, 2013, no. 45); K. Fritsch.
Details
Number of books
2
Subject
Art, Fashion, Fine Bindings, Illustrated, Literature, Sociology
Book title
Perles et parures
Author/ Illustrator
Gavarni
Condition
Very good
Publication year oldest item
1850
Height
28 cm
Edition
1st Edition, Illustrated Edition
Width
19 cm
Language
French
Original language
Yes
Publisher
G. de Gonet, Martinon, Mme veuve Janet
Binding/ Material
Half leather
Number of pages
647
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