[Collective, Balzac, Nodier, Dumas...]. - The French painted - Lot 296

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[Collective, Balzac, Nodier, Dumas...]. - The French painted - Lot 296
[Collective, Balzac, Nodier, Dumas...]. - The French painted by themselves. [Encyclopédie morale du XIXe siècle] (subtitle from volume 4). Paris, Curmer, 1840-1842. 9 volumes in-8 (Paris: 5 volumes; Province: 3 volumes; Le Prisme: 1 volume). 9 volumes bound in publisher's boards, spines browned, some stains to the binding of volume 2, foxing - [3 ff.], ttrre-frontispice, XVI, 380 pp., [4 ff.]; 47 illustrations out of text; [3 ff.], title-frontispice, XVIII, 376 pp, [4 ff.], 48 out-of-text illustrations; [3 ff.], title-frontispiece, xl, 352pp, [4 ff.], 48 out-of-text illustrations; [3 ff.], title-frontispiece, 392 pp, [5 ff.], 49 out-of-text illustrations; [3 ff.], title-frontispiece, CVII, 376 pp, [5 ff. Spine detached at head, spines cracked, occasional heavy foxing, large tear without missing a table leaf; [3 ff.], title-frontispiece, 392 pp., [4 ff.], 49 off-text; [3 ff.], title-frontispiece, VIII, 396 pp, [4 ff.], 50 off-texts; [3 ff.], VIII, 460 pp, [5 ff.], 37pp, [1 p.], [1 f.], 54 off-texts, 1 double-page color map; [2 ff.], 480 pp, vignettes in text on all volumes (there are no off-texts in this volume). First edition. Important publication for which Curmer called upon the most illustrious authors of his time such as Balzac (he signs the first article "l'épicier"), Nodier (who signs "l'amateur de livres"), Dumas, Gautier, Achard, Arlincourt, Janin, Méry, Wey, Louise Colet, Eugénie Foa, Sophie de Bawr, Mélanie Waldor, Virginie Ancelot.... as well as to the most important illustrators like Gavarni, Monnnier, Meissonier, Daumier, Grandville, d'Aubigny... In his preface Jules Janin gave the meaning of the work: "we will show ourselves not only painted in bust, but from the feet to the head and as ridiculous as we can make us". The ridiculousness did not exclude the historical interest nor the social concerns as for example the article of Frémy on the "children of factory" in which he raises against the absence of regulation on the work of the children. Social types situated in their environments or their trades, provincial types: the third volume of "la Province" concerns the Colonies. Also included, still in publisher's hardback: Les Anglais peints par eux-même. By the literary luminaries of England. Translation by M. Emile de Labédolliere. Drawings by Mr. Kenny Meadous. Paris, Curmer 1840-1841. 2 volumes in-8, spines browned, spine missing in the first volume, foxing, 1 plate unbound in volume 2 - [2 ff.], III pp. [1 p.], 400 pp. title-frontispiece, frontispiece and 50 plates out of text ; [2 ff.], 379 pp, [1 p.], frontispiece, 47 out of 48 plates out of text, numerous vignettes in text.
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