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Paris: Chez G. Engelmann [et] Gihaut, 1824. The Life of a Young Girl who Follows the Wrong Path and Loses her Honor... Depicted in Seventeen Hand Colored Lithographs by Émile Wattier WATTIER, Émile, illustrator. Un An de la vie d'une jeune fille, Roman Historique en XVII chapitres, écrits par son confident et lithographiés par M. Wattier. Paris: Chez G. Engelmann [et] Gihaut, 1824. First edition. Large quarto (13 1/4 x 10 inches; 335 x 254 mm.). Facsimile cover title. Seventeen hand-colored lithographed plates by Engelmann after Wattier. Modern maroon cloth, front cover with facsimile title pasted on. The seventeen charming plates by Émile Wattier (1800-1868) depict a young girl meeting and falling in love with a handsome young man, her liaison with him, and subsequent pregnancy, her receiving a letter saying that he has gone away, and finally her arranged marriage to a much older man. Scarce. No copies have appeared at auction over the past 100 years; OCLC locates just four copies in…
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Un an de la vie d'une jeune fille
by WATTIER, Émile
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Un an de la vie d un jeune homme
by ADAM, Victor
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Paris: Sazerac et Duval, Engelmann, Langlumè & Brossier, 1824. First Edition of the Illustrator's First Book With Seventeen Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates ADAM, Victor. Un An de la Vie d un Jeune Homme. Histoire véritable en 17 Chapitres. Escrits par lui-même et Lithographiés par Victor Adam. Paris: Sazerac et Duval, Engelmann, Langlumè & Brossier, 1824. First edition. Folio (13 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches; 336 x 251 mm.). Facsimile cover title. Seventeen superb hand-colored lithograph plates printed by Langlumé. Modern royal blue cloth, front cover with facsimile title pasted on. Short marginal tear, neatly repaired to lower margin of first plate, not affecting image. Plates 2, 8, 15 & 17 with the blind stamp of the publisher Sazerac et Duval in lower blank margin. A very good example. One year in the life of a young man. A true story in seventeen chapters. Written by himself and lithographed by Victor Adam. Victor Adam (1801-1865) is better known for his later works of pictorial journalism or…
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Uncle Bernac
by DOYLE, Arthur Conan; SAUBER, Robert, illustrator
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London: Smith, Elder, & Co.,, 1897. I dare say that I had already read my uncle's letter a hundred times, and I am sure that I knew it by heart" DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. Uncle Bernac. A Memory of the Empire. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1897. First English edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 191 x 127 mm.). x, 300, [8, publishers advertisements] pp. Monotone frontispiece (with tissue-guard) and eleven monotone plates by Robert Sauber. Three leaves with slightly creased corners, a few light marginal stains, otherwise very good. Publisher's red cloth, front cover blocked and titled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, black coated endpapers. Inner hinges cracked, spine ends and corners a little rubbed. A good copy. 12,500 copies were published on 14th May 1897 priced 6/-. "I dare say that I had already read my uncle's letter a hundred times, and I am sure that I knew it by heart. None the less I took it out of my pocket, and, sitting on the side of the lugger, I went over it again with as much…
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Undine
by RACKHAM, Arthur; FOUQUÉ, De La Motte
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London / New York: William Heinemann / Doubleday, Page & Co., , 1909. A Masterpiece of Sympathetic Understanding" Edition de Luxe Signed by the Artist [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. FOUQUE, De La Motte. Undine. Adapted from the German by W.L. Courtney and Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London / New York: William Heinemann / Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909. Edition de Luxe, limited to 1000 large-paper copies signed by the artist, this being copy no. 226. Quarto. Fifteen color plates mounted on brown art paper, with captioned tissue guards. Head- tailpieces. Handsomely rebound ca. 1960 by Bayntun (Rivière) in full blue crushed levant morocco. Covers decoratively bordered in gilt, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt board edges and turn-ins, cockerel end-papers, top edge gilt, others uncut. There is a very slight 2 1/2 inch crack on the upper joint (but still sound), otherwise a very fine copy. Housed in a fleece-lined, light blue cloth…
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An unused/unpublished original pen, ink and monotone drawing from "Christmas 1993 or Santa's Last Ride.
by LE CAIN, Errol; BRICUSSE, Leslie
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London: , 1987. An Unused/Unpublished Original Pen, Ink and Monotone Drawing From "Christmas 1993 or Santa's Last Ride." LE CAIN, Errol, illustrator. BRICUSSE, Leslie. An unused/unpublished original pen, ink and monotone drawing from "Christmas 1993 or Santa's Last Ride." Image size: 5 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches. Santa on his sleigh, full of gifts, being pulled along by six reindeer. Matted, framed and glazed. In 1986 Leslie Bricusse showed David Brass a poem that he had written entitled Christmas 1993 or Santa's Last Ride. It described how difficult Santa's job of delivering gifts around the world had become in these modern times. David, who had known Leslie for many years, had the idea to create a book from the poem and introduced Errol Le Cain to Leslie Bricusse. The book was published in 1987 - unfortunately Errol Le Cain died just before the publication date. It was his last work. Errol John Le Cain (5 March 1941 - 3 January 1989) was a British animator and children's book illustrator. He won the…
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