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[CHILDREN]
Daumier, Gavarni &c.
Les Petits Francais.
A splendid and scarce book from 1842 featuring 23 charming hand-colored plates of French street children in various trade costumes. Other delightful uncoloured woodcut illustrations set in the text by Daumier Gavarni etc.
- Published
- Paris: 1842.
- Plates
- 25
- Binding/Size
- S=8vo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Paris: 1842.
- Ref
- 805
8vo. 275 pp. Frontis and title. Quarter calf with a single rule in gilt to boards, title in gilt to spine, marbled endpapers. Only minor wear to extremities, some light foxing and toning to contents, else good. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. 2. Title page. 3. La petite fille comme il faut. 4. Le Groom. 5. Le petit clerc. 6. L'enfant de choeur. 7. La vielleuse. 8. Le gamin de Paris. 9. L'enfant de troupe. 10. Le petit industriel. 11. Le mousse. 12. Le ramoneur. 13. Le diable d'imprimerie. 14. Le rapin. 15. Le petit patissier. 16. La petite mendiante. 17. Le petit saltimbanque. 18. Le bohemein. 19. Le petit tambour des invalides. 20. La petite portiere. 21. Les petites apprenties. 22. La pensionnaire. 23. L'ecolier. 24. La marchande de balais. 25. Le collegien