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PHILIPON, Charles.
Les Portes et Fenetres.
An Excessively Scarce Color-Plate Book Each Plate with a Peek-a-Boo "Oh, My!" Moveable Door or Window. Hand-colored lithographed plates with overslip moveable doors and windows that provide a piquant, behind-the-scenes bit of racy gallantry as secret assignations are revealed.
- Published
- Paris: Chez Aubert, n.d. [1833]
- References
- ABPC reports no auction records for this volume. OCLC/KVK report no copies in institutional holdings worldwide.
- Plates
- 10
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Paris: Chez Aubert, n.d. [1833]
- Ref
- 1017
FIRST EDITION of this excessively rare suite of lithographs. Folio (14 1/2" x 10 5/8" - 368 x 270 mm). Ten hand-coloured lithographed plates with over-slip, moveable doors, and windows provide a piquant, behind-the-scenes bit of racy gallantry as secret assignations are revealed. Lithographed by Delaunois. 19th-century quarter green crushed morocco over blue cloth boards. Half green morocco with a morocco title label with gilt lettering on the upper board. Title in gilt to spine. Minor rubbing and wear to spine and corners - else good. Marbled endpapers, original green printed front wrapper. A fine copy. Extremely scarce work covering a fascinating subject. Coloured plates in order: 1. Maman, j'y vais... 2. Elle s'habille. 3. Not captioned. 4. La mere au bal / La fille a la maison (under flap) 5. La voici !... 6. Chez qui demandez vous?... 7. J'ai entendu du bruit dans ce cabinet. 8. Bon ma femme remet ma pétition. 9. Cette femme la m'adore et n'attend que le moment favorable.../ Chut ! l'autre est la...(under flap) 10. On, ne peut pas vous donner!
