Author: LA CARICATURE; [PHILIPON, Charles, founder, publisher, editor]
Title: La Caricature
Description: Paris: Chez Aubert, 1830-1835. The Journal That Initiated the Golden Age of French Caricature With Two of the Rare Supplements For Subscribers [LA CARICATURE]. [PHILIPON, Charles, founder, publisher, editor]. La Caricature. Morale, Religieuse, Littéraire et Scénique. Nos. 1 - 251 [complete run]. Paris: Chez Aubert, Nov 4, 1830 - August 27, 1835. Ten Quarto volumes bound in five (13 1/8 x 10 1/4 in; 334 x 261 mm.). Containing 251 issues, each with four pages of text and lithographed plates numbered 1-18, 20-524, plus four unnumbered or bis plates [45, 56, 132 & 153]. A total of 527 (of 528) plates, including over 120 hand-colored, three with movable flaps/panels. Many issues bearing the Timbre Royal Seine 5 centime tax stamp to upper or lower right corner of front page. This is a complete run of La Caricature, including the 4 bis or unnumbered plates, plus all the wrappers with the exception of "Numero 63 "which was never bound in. (the two plates for "Numero 63" are present). Also this set has been bound, as is quite common without plate 19 (Un Ami du peuple par H. Monnier). "It is missing in the La Bedoyère copy, as in most copies." (Vicaire II, p. 52). The set includes two of the the supplementary extra printed sheets and announcements, which, apparently, were only sent to subscribers of the magazine in the form of loose inserts, and which are therefore usually lacking from sets of the magazine. It is unusual to find so any of these extras present in a single set of La Caricature: 1. The[second] Croquades folded sheet (in issue 65) "Très rare" [Carteret III, p.122]. 2. Pink folding theatre poster in issue 124. Contemporary quarter red roan over red diced paper boards with red roan corner tips. Smooth spines decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers. Some plates with light to moderate foxing. a couple with foxed spots generally to margins and not intruding upon image. While some of the wrappers/text have toned as expected (but are not brittle), others - miraculously - remain as fresh as the day they were printed. An excellent set. Edited by Philipon in the few years that censorship was relaxed, La Caricature is the most evocative revue of the Romantic period, taking an important role in the fight of the liberals against Louis-Philippe and his ministers. Although a courageous editor, Philipon, with the literary help of Desnoyers, Hugo, and Balzac, was not a great artist and needed the inspiration of Daumier and Grandville to bring alive his satirical magazine. Issued over only five years La Caricature is the most famous of all nineteenth century satirical magazines. The major contributors were Daumier and Grandville but there are contributions by Monnier, Lami, Descamps, Raffet, Gavarni, Deveria, Bouquet, Traviès, Desperet, Forest, Roubaud and others. Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 160. Vicaire II, cols. 46-81. .

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