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BOILLY (Louis-Léopold) [Les grimaces. Paris, lith. de Delpech, 1824-1827].
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BOILLY (Louis-Léopold) [Les grimaces. Paris, lith. by Delpech, 1824-1827].
Large in-4, havana half-chagrin, spine with 5 raised bands, author, title and dates gilt, gilt head, all on tabs, untrimmed [Lemardeley] (nerves and spines a little rubbed| pl. 65 and 66 stained outside the figure| many foot margins skilfully restored, visible only in transparency| on pl.12 a restored tear reaches the edge of the figure).
Extremely rare complete suite of 95 plates of caricature portraits drawn by the painter Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845), published in lithography by Delpech and known under the title "Grimaces".
All plates, printed on wove paper, have been finely colored. The sheets are large (approx. 335 x 250 mm., some smaller by a few millimeters, and two, pl. 25 and 26, a little shorter but with intact foot margins).
Plates 89 and 90 depict the faces of Osage Indians, "a savage people from North America, in the state of Missouri, who arrived in Paris on August 1, 1827".
The copy also contains, at the beginning of the volume, a self-portrait of Boilly, dated 1823, published in lithography by Delpech| and an additional plate: "Parlé au portié", engraved by E. Froment after Boilly, published in Paris by Hautecoeur Martinet, colored.
PROVENANCE
Napoléon-Michel-Léon Ney (1870-1928| descendant of the Marshal, husband of Eugénie Bonaparte, descendant of Prince
Lucien| engraved armorial ex-libris), who probably commissioned the binding from Léon Lemardeley, a bookbinder active in Paris who died in 1903| Étienne Beauvillain (20th c. bookplate engraved on copper by Charles Jouas)| another, 19th c.
Large in-4, havana half-chagrin, spine with 5 raised bands, author, title and dates gilt, gilt head, all on tabs, untrimmed [Lemardeley] (nerves and spines a little rubbed| pl. 65 and 66 stained outside the figure| many foot margins skilfully restored, visible only in transparency| on pl.12 a restored tear reaches the edge of the figure).
Extremely rare complete suite of 95 plates of caricature portraits drawn by the painter Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845), published in lithography by Delpech and known under the title "Grimaces".
All plates, printed on wove paper, have been finely colored. The sheets are large (approx. 335 x 250 mm., some smaller by a few millimeters, and two, pl. 25 and 26, a little shorter but with intact foot margins).
Plates 89 and 90 depict the faces of Osage Indians, "a savage people from North America, in the state of Missouri, who arrived in Paris on August 1, 1827".
The copy also contains, at the beginning of the volume, a self-portrait of Boilly, dated 1823, published in lithography by Delpech| and an additional plate: "Parlé au portié", engraved by E. Froment after Boilly, published in Paris by Hautecoeur Martinet, colored.
PROVENANCE
Napoléon-Michel-Léon Ney (1870-1928| descendant of the Marshal, husband of Eugénie Bonaparte, descendant of Prince
Lucien| engraved armorial ex-libris), who probably commissioned the binding from Léon Lemardeley, a bookbinder active in Paris who died in 1903| Étienne Beauvillain (20th c. bookplate engraved on copper by Charles Jouas)| another, 19th c.