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CHAM; NOÉ, AMÉDÉE DE Mœurs BritanniquesFifteen Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates Caricaturing the British [CHAM, illustrator]. Mœurs Britanniques. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., [n.d., ca. 1850]. Large folio (12 15/16 x 9 7/16 inches; 328 x 240 mm.). Hand-colored lithographed title and fifteen numbered hand-colored lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic. The plates are captioned: 'Une femme bien attachée;' 'Le Quaker;' 'Le Recruteur;' 'Visite au Musée;' 'Mariage d’inclination;' 'Les Hauts grades;' 'Philanthropie. Bien entendue,' 'Les Boxeurs;' 'L’Écossais;' 'Un Costume national;' 'Baragouin Britannique;' 'In the Stocks;' 'Le Péage du turn-pike;' 'L’Invalide de Chelsea;' and 'Smithfied Market.' Publishers green cloth, decoratively stamped in blind on front and back cover, lettered in gilt on front cover, decoratively tooled in gilt on spine. Watered silk-paper endpapers. Small rectangular bookplate of Francisco Echevarne y Diez de Ulzurrun on front paste down. A fine copy. Of Amédée de Noé, 'known as Cham (that is, Ham, the son of Noah)...it was said that he had ‘an idea a day’ for Le charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums. His contributions to the Album du siège (173), in which Daumier was his collaborator, are typical of his work' (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, pp. 155-156).
Offered for US$ 3000.00 by: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB) - Book number: 01356