Affiches Illustrèes [&] Gentilhommes Bourgeois [&] Des Mères de Famille

Paris: Chez Aubert, 1846. Three Complete Series by Paul Gavarni

GAVARNI, Paul [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier]. Affiches Illustrèes [&] Gentilhommes Bourgeois [&] Des Mères de Famille. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1846-1848.

Three complete series bound in one folio volume (13 5/8 x 10 3/8 inches; 345 x 268 mm.). Fourteen fine lithograph plates. All plates mounted on stubs and interleaved. The last six plates with a light waterstain on the top blank margin, not affecting image.

Bound by Pagnant ca. 1925 in three-quarter red straight-grain morocco over red diced cloth ruled in gilt. Smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers top edge gilt. Rear cover with waterstain at top.

The three series are:

Affiches Illustrèes [Illustrated Posters] (6 plates complete): Armelhault & Bocher 998-1003 (25 June 1844 - 28 May 1846)

Gentilhommes Bourgeois [Bourgeois Gentlemen] (3 plates complete): Armelhault & Bocher 1087-1089 (9 August 1846 - 3 October 1846)

Des Mères de Famille [Mothers of the Family] (5 plates complete): Armelhault & Bocher 1076-1080 (24 November 1847 - 5 February 1848)

Rare: OCLC/KVL locate just one example of Affiches Illustrèes (The Morgan Library & Museum (NY, US).
No examples of Gentilhommes Bourgeois, and just one example of Des Mères de Famille (Ohio State Univ. (OH, US)

Armelhault & Bocher 998-1003; 1087-1089 and 1076-1080. (Inventory #: 06217)