Daumier’s railway caricatures 1852-1858 [spine title]; 25 original lithographs about railroads and train travel from Charivari, 1852-1858. [Chemin de fer].
Daumier, Honoré. [Honore]
Price: $1,000.00
Book Id: 07001
Description
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Paris: Charivari [newspaper], 1852-1858. 25 original lithographs by the master caricaturist and social commentator Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). All are on travel by railroad (chemin de fer). They are nicely bound in red 3/4-morocco and cloth with a few little scrapes and some fading of the cloth on the front cover. Each lithograph has print on the back, as is normal for Daumier’s 4000+ lithographs drawn for newspapers (apart from much more expensive proof copies). The page size of the mounting sheets is 36.2 x 26.7 cm. The prints themselves are usually about 25 x 34 cm (oversquare). **Four internal, handwritten title pages divide the collection into the series which comprise it. These are (with Delteil numbers for the prints present): “Physionomies des chemins de fer” 1852: Delteil 2286, 2287, 2288; “Les trains de plaisir” 1852: 2325, 2326, 2327, 2328, 2329, 2331, 2332, 2333, 2334, 2335, 2336, 2337, 2338, 2339; “Les agrémens des chemins de fer” 1856: 2823, 2824; “Les chemins de fer” 2 series, 1855 and 1857/1858: 2729, 2730, 2731, 2732, 3002, 3003. Some prints foxed or stained, especially at corners where they were mounted. Details available upon request. **This is a splendid topical collection of original prints by one of the greatest artists of the 19th century (and where is he now, when we need him so badly?).
