(Etudes prises dans le bas Peuple où les Cris de Paris premiere (-Cinqième) Suitte (sic). 5 issues in 1 vol.)
by PARIS. - (BOUCHARDON, Edme)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Zürich, Switzerland
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About This Item
Paris , Fessard, 1736-1746. With 60 numbered engravings after drawings by Calys after Bouchardon, including 5 pictorial titles (the last suit unnumbered). Large 4to (343 x 260 mm). Contemporary boards, with gold-lettered title on spine. (Paris ), Fessard, (1736-1746). First edition of these beautiful large engravings of Paris' barkers. A scarce set of the "Cries of Paris" after the original designs by Edme Bouchardon, the eminent sculptor for King Louis XV of France and Pope Clement XII. Illustrating the habits and costumes of various professions of the working-class people, this series gives a vivid picture of street life in Paris in the eighteenth century: "Chaudronier Auvergnat, Décroteuer, L'orgue de Barbarie, ou plustost d'Allemange, Porteur d'Eua, Savoyarde, la Lanterne Magigue, Vieux Maçon, Tonnellier, Espéce de Parapluye, Marchand d'Images, Crieuse de vieux Chapeaux, Caffé Caffé", etc, and also various tradesmen and women. The captions are in French. - Colas 401; Lipperheide Fd 4; Cohen/de Ricci 179; Cicognara 1601 (only the first 3 series); Massin, Les Cris de la Ville (1978). GRAPHIC ARTS:ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ; FRANCE ; COSTUMES / MODE ; GRAPHIC ARTS:PRINTS & DRAWINGS ;
Details
- Bookseller
- Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat (CH)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33030-318
- Title
- (Etudes prises dans le bas Peuple où les Cris de Paris premiere (-Cinqième) Suitte (sic). 5 issues in 1 vol.)
- Author
- PARIS. - (BOUCHARDON, Edme)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Paris , Fessard
- Date Published
- 1736-1746
- Keywords
- GRAPHIC ARTS:ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ;
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Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat
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