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Observations sur les Modes et les Usages de Paris by BON GENRE, LE; MESANGERE, Pierre de la; VERNET, Carle; DEBUCOURT, Philibert-Louis

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Title: Observations sur les Modes et les Usages de Paris
Author: BON GENRE, LE; MESANGERE, Pierre de la; VERNET, Carle; DEBUCOURT, Philibert-Louis
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Paris: Chez l'Editeur, 1827. The Rarely Seen Parisian Scene The Rise of the Post-Revolution French Middle Class Its Customs, Costumes, and Leisure Activities [BON GENRE, LE]. Observations sur les Modes et les Usages de Paris, pour Servir d'Explication aux 115 Caricatures Publiées Sous le Titre De Bon Genre, Depuis le Commencement du Dix-Neuvième Siècle. Paris: Chez L'Éditeur [Pierre de la Mésangère], 1827. Third edition, with eleven additional plates not found in the first edition of 1817. Large folio (14 7/8 x 10 7/8 in; 378 x 277 mm.). [4], 24 pp. of descriptive text, 115 hand-colored plates. Engraved by Georges-Jacques Gatine. Printed by Vassal et Essling. With a duplicate of plate no. 16 loosely inserted. Some light foxing which is mainly confined to the blank margins. Contemporary half crimson straight-grain morocco over marbled boards, smooth spine elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt. Some light wear to top and bottom of spine. An excellent example of one of the rarest suites of fashion and caricature. OCLC/KVK note only four copies of this edition in library holdings worldwide, no copies of the first edition and only two copies of the 1822 edition. One of the rarest suites of fashion and caricature, featuring superbly colored plates. In addition to satirizing the extravagances of contemporary fashion and society, the finely rendered illustrations portray a range of public entertainers-including the rope-dancing troupes of Forioso and Ravel, a magic lantern show, two performing dog acts, Indian jugglers, acrobats, and four distinct aerial runways. Le Bon Genre was one of the earliest series of prints to record the social trends and leisure activities of contemporary Parisians. It is the most important fashion portfolio of its time documenting, through its caricatures, the rise of the modern city of Paris and the emerging middle-class bourgeois, its fashions, recreations and dating customs. It also has fun at visitors' expense, particularly the English, whose customs and fashions the French found incomprehensible and unfashionable; the years of hostility between France and England did nothing to improve relations and the French lost few opportunities to ridicule the British. Le Bon Genre's popularity influenced most of the later fashion illustrators and journals, as well as the satirical albums so typical of mid-19th century France, and remains a key record of French social history. Overall, Le Bon Genre bears witness to the colorful post-Revolution period of Parisian society as it evolves into the early Republican era. Of particular interest is the descriptive text preceding the plates that details the content of each caricature. One is astonished and charmed by images of a trio enjoying a magic lantern show (#31); three women rapturously eating sorbets (#4); a trained and costumed dog act (#35); a circus balancing act (#91); a man who eats anything (#93); a huge amusement park slide (#97); and so many more enchanting engravings delicately and vividly hand-colored. "Le Bon Genre...was first published in 1817 and went through several editions. This is a record of English and French fashions since the beginning of the nineteenth century; the English fashions are more in the nature of caricatures, to show how badly Englishwomen dress as compared with the Parisiennes" (Vyvyan Holland, Hand Coloured Fashion Plates 1770 to 1899, p. 51). "The 'Bon Genre's' first edition, 104 plates, appeared in 1817. The 1822 edition included eleven additional plates; a third edition was published in 1827. Its illustrations are lively and witty statements of the life of Paris since the beginning of XIXc., with a text of explanatory paragraphs, rather than fashion plates" (Millia Davenport, The Book of Costume, II, p. 814). "Georges-Jacques Gatine was the leading costume engraver of his time. For many years he supplied plates for the Journal des dames. He engraved the 115 designs which make up Le bon genre , a lively mélange caricaturing people and scenes of contemporary interest" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, p. 141). Le Bon Genre's publisher and editor, Pierre Joseph Antoine Le Bouc of Mésangère (1761-1830), better known by the name of Le Mésangère, was a fascinating character whose eclectic career covered a very wide period, from the French Revolution (1789) up to the Second Restoration (1815 -1830). First an eccleslastlc, philosopher and writer, then fashion journalist, he was, for more than thirty years, editor-in-chief of Le Journal des Dames, a periodical that had an enormous influence upon contemporary French standards of elegance and taste. Born in Anjou, 1761 to a middle-class family, Mésangère entered the order Congregation of the Brothers in 1784, and held the philosophie belles lettres Chair at the College de la Fleche. In hiding during the Terror (1793-1794), after Robesplerre's death (July 28, 1794) he began to be known as a writer for Parisian literary journals. He wrote Le Voyageur a Paris ou Tableau pittoresque et moral de cette capitale (1797) a book that gained a certain notoriety. In 1799 he became editor of Le Journal des Dames, a magazine founded two years earlier. It reigned supreme amongst the women's magazines of the epoch. With engraver Gatine executing the designs, Mésangère was the pre-eminent writer, editor, and publisher of works devoted to French women's fashion of his era. The contributing artists to Le Bon Genre included George Dutailly, François Joseph Bosio, Louis Marie Lante, Horace Vernet, and others, but it is Mésangère, the editor and publisher who guided them, and Gatine the engraver, who executed their designs, who were and remain the stars here. Colas 2240. Vicaire I, 839-842. Rahir 332. Davenport 2280A-2281.

Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliotheque de feu M. le Duc de la Valliere. Premiere Partie contenant les Manuscrits, les premieres Éditions, les Livres imprimés sur vélin & sur grand papier, les Livres rares, & précieux par leur belle conservation, les Livres d'Estampes, &c. dont la Vente se fera dans les premiers jours du mois de Décembre 1783 by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: LA VALLIÈRE)

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Title: Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliotheque de feu M. le Duc de la Valliere. Premiere Partie contenant les Manuscrits, les premieres Éditions, les Livres imprimés sur vélin & sur grand papier, les Livres rares, & précieux par leur belle conservation, les Livres d'Estampes, &c. dont la Vente se fera dans les premiers jours du mois de Décembre 1783
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Description: Engraved frontis. port., one folding engraved plate, & four engraved facsimiles (three folding). Four vols. 8vo, cont. calf (“veau porphyre”), gilt fillets round sides, gilt fleurons in each corner of covers, flat spines richly gilt, red & tan morocco lettering pieces on spines. Paris: G. De Bure, 1783. An exceptionally lovely set of the celebrated catalogue of the first part of the most important book and manuscript collection of the 18th century. The catalogue, prepared by De Bure and Van Praet, contains MSS., noteworthy incunabula, and books printed on vellum or large paper. Their descriptions influenced French and English book collectors and bibliographers for several generations. The sale, consisting of 5668 lots, made the enormous sum of 464,677 liv. 8 s. “The manuscripts constitute an amazing collection of early French poetry and romances.”–Taylor, Book Catalogues, p. 248. This set, which is priced throughout in a contemporary hand, has the Supplément to the first part and the separately printed 42-page price list; they are very rare and are usually found only in large paper sets. Very fine and handsome set. Engraved bookplate of A. Kuhnholtz. ❧ Brunet, II, 554. Peignot, pp. 128-29. Pollard & Ehrman no. 297.

Tono-Bungay by Wells, H. G.; Washburn, Stan (Artist)

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Title: Tono-Bungay
Author: Wells, H. G.; Washburn, Stan (Artist)
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Description: San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2008. Hardcover. New. Stan Washburn. The type, Plantin, in Monotype composition, and the polymer plates, printed by letterpress on Mohawk Via laid paper, in large octavo format, 9-1/8 by 6 inches. The book, consisting of 372 pages, is bound in full cloth, with titling labels on spine and front cover, the latter in the shape of a bottle, in slipcase. Included with the book in the slipcase is a booklet reprinting the informative notes by Edward Mendelson from the Penguin Classics edition of Tono-Bungay (2005). Explanations of unfamiliar references and elucidations of realities underpinning the fiction can be readily consulted while reading the Arion Press deluxe edition. The edition is limited to 300 numbered copies for sale. H. G. Wells, the British novelist and social thinker (1866-1946), is best known for his works of science fiction: "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Island of Doctor Moreau" (1896), "The Invisible Man" (1897), and "The War of the Worlds" (1898), written in swift succession to enormous success. The novel "Tono-Bungay" (1908-09) is less well known and not futuristic, though it seems keenly prescient a hundred years later. It is his greatest book. "Tono-Bungay is Wells's masterpiece," writes Edward Mendelson in his excellent introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of 2005. "It is a profoundly unsettling novel, epic in scope and encyclopedic in content, yet always disturbingly aware of its own fictional quality, of the self-deceptions of its first-person narrator, and of the fictions and delusions that shape modern life in every sphere from sex to commerce to politics to science." Despite its serious nature, Tono-Bungay is highly entertaining. The title is the brand-name of a patent-medicine concocted by Edward Ponderevo, the uncle of the narrator George Ponderevo. The story is clearly based on the history and phenomenal commercial success of Coca-Cola. Like Coke, Tono-Bungay is not entirely good for you. This novel remains an extremely timely story for its exposé not only of the pharmaceutical industry but of unrestrained financial speculation. Read more about the novel. This edition features fourteen psychological portraits of the main characters by Stan Washburn. Here his technique is to scratch negatives for the direct production of polymer plates. Though printed by letterpress their linear quality is that of etching. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Zodiac Town; The Rhymes of Amos and Ann by TURNER, Nancy Byrd

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Title: Zodiac Town; The Rhymes of Amos and Ann
Author: TURNER, Nancy Byrd
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very good +. Winifred BROMHALL. First edition. 8vo; 131pp; gilt-stamped navy cloth over board, vignette of children reading a book to front; pictorial endpapers in navy; 13 full-page b&w illustrations; small vignettes in text and as head-pieces; light age-toning of paper, light rub to bottom corners and spine tail; unclipped unpriced dust jacket, pictorial front, publisher's ad to rear, a few chips and closed tear to rear; fine in very good plus dj. Scarce dust jacket. First published in the children's magazines, The Youths' Companions and St. Nicholas, and others. Introductory poem about Amos and Ann learning rhymes, followed by poems for each of the months and the adventures of Amos and Ann. Astrological sign vignette head-piece on each month.

The Return of Colonel Pho by SIMPSON, Ronald

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Title: The Return of Colonel Pho
Author: SIMPSON, Ronald
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
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Description: Derby: Monarch, 1965. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Paperback original. Label front wrap, age-toning on the pages, about very good. Early Vietnam War fiction.

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