CARICATURE, LA. Journal fondé et dirigé par Ch. Philipon. Nos. 1 - 251. (All Published). [Together with:] La Lithographie Mensuelle. (Supplément de La Caricature)
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Paris. Chez Aubert, au Grand Magasin de Caricatures et Nouveautés Lithographiques, Galerie Vero-Dodat. 1830 4 nov–1835 27 août; 1832–1834
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A fine complete copy of La Caricature bound with a very rare complete set of La Lithographie Mensuelle.
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 has become the most famous of the nineteenth century satirical magazines. The major contributors were Daumier and Grandville but there are contributions by Monnier, Lami, Descamps, Raffet, Gavarni, Deveria, Bouquet, Travies, Desperret, Forest, Roubaud and others.
Complete with the 4 bis or unnumbered plates, all the volume wrappers (save vol. X, possibly never issued), and all the volume indices (index never published for final volume).
This copy features the following additional material:
'Prospectus et Numéro Modèle' -2 plates (a lithograph by Grandville and a hand-coloured lithograph by Monnier) with the rare wrapper with text printed on white paper. 'Très rare ... '. (Carteret III, p.112).
Issue 30: 'Supplément', an additional leaf of text with details of a case in the Cours d'Assises, 'Procés de la Caricature - Les Bulles de Savon' at which La Caricature was prosecuted and acquitted.
Issue 48 is present in duplicate, however, one of the issues is censored and one uncesored. The uncensored copy features details of the court case against M. Eugène Desmares, prosecuted for his political satires based on verses by La Fontaine. Desmares was found guilty, incarcerated for 6 months and fined '500 francs d'amende'. The details of this case are replaced in the censored issue by a blank space and a note by Philipon.
Issue 55: 'Supplément' with details of the 'Procès du No. 35 de La Caricature, Audience du 14 Novembre 1831' at which Philipon, the editor, was found guilty, sentenced to six months in prison, fined 2,000 Francs and ordered to pay the costs; the publisher Aubert and the printer Delaporte were acquitted.
Issue 56: 'Supplément' which features details of the previous case and the famous 'Croquades Faites à l'Audience du 14 Nov. (Cours d'Assises)' which features the four-stage transformation of Louis Philippe into a pear. The verso features a defence of caricature by 'Le Comte Alex. de B ... ' and a note by the publisher Aubert.
Issue 124: 'Supplément', single folded sheet of pink paper (434 x c.312 mm) printed recto only, announcing the 'Théâtre des Folies-Politiques' and the first performance of 'L'Attentat Risible, ou Le Pistolet Philanthrope'.
'Among volumes devoted to pictorial satire, La Caricature is perhaps the most famous. Despite continuous harassment from its founding until its final suppression, it was unwavering in the ferocity with which it attacked Louis Philippe and his regime ... La Caricature has many kinds of importance, historical as well as artistic ... Though it had a large initial circulation, complete sets in acceptable condition have become very uncommon.' (Ray).
Also included with this copy of La Caricature is the complete set of 24 plates (23 lithographs and 1 etching) issued as La Lithographie Mensuelle (the first few issues were published as 'Catalogue des Principales Nouveautés Lithographiques'). The publication was distributed through subscription in order to raise funds to fight the many law-suits that were raised against La Caricature by the authorities. Philipon founded the 'Association pour la Liberté de la Presse' and those who donated money would receive a lithograph each month in return. It is these monthly lithographs, published over a period of two years, that form La Lithographie Mensuelle. In addition to a complete set of the plates - largely provided by Grandville and Daumier - this set includes all of the text (issued with 19 of the plates) and the rear wrappers, save that for plate VII ('Septième Dessin ... '). A full list of the plates for La Lithographie Mensuelle is available on request.
'La collection de La Lithographie Mensuelle est rare: elle ne pouvait connaître qu'un tirage restreint.' (Getty).
This complete set of La Caricature, together with La Lithographie Mensuelle, is with the bookplate of the Chateau de Rosny, owned by the famous bibliophile the Duchesse de Berry, Marie-Caroline de Bourbon Sicile (1798 - 1870).
[Ray 160; Carteret III, 111 - 112; see Clive Frank Getty (& S. Guillaume), Grandville, Dessins Originaux, Nancy, 1986].
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 has become the most famous of the nineteenth century satirical magazines. The major contributors were Daumier and Grandville but there are contributions by Monnier, Lami, Descamps, Raffet, Gavarni, Deveria, Bouquet, Travies, Desperret, Forest, Roubaud and others.
Complete with the 4 bis or unnumbered plates, all the volume wrappers (save vol. X, possibly never issued), and all the volume indices (index never published for final volume).
This copy features the following additional material:
'Prospectus et Numéro Modèle' -2 plates (a lithograph by Grandville and a hand-coloured lithograph by Monnier) with the rare wrapper with text printed on white paper. 'Très rare ... '. (Carteret III, p.112).
Issue 30: 'Supplément', an additional leaf of text with details of a case in the Cours d'Assises, 'Procés de la Caricature - Les Bulles de Savon' at which La Caricature was prosecuted and acquitted.
Issue 48 is present in duplicate, however, one of the issues is censored and one uncesored. The uncensored copy features details of the court case against M. Eugène Desmares, prosecuted for his political satires based on verses by La Fontaine. Desmares was found guilty, incarcerated for 6 months and fined '500 francs d'amende'. The details of this case are replaced in the censored issue by a blank space and a note by Philipon.
Issue 55: 'Supplément' with details of the 'Procès du No. 35 de La Caricature, Audience du 14 Novembre 1831' at which Philipon, the editor, was found guilty, sentenced to six months in prison, fined 2,000 Francs and ordered to pay the costs; the publisher Aubert and the printer Delaporte were acquitted.
Issue 56: 'Supplément' which features details of the previous case and the famous 'Croquades Faites à l'Audience du 14 Nov. (Cours d'Assises)' which features the four-stage transformation of Louis Philippe into a pear. The verso features a defence of caricature by 'Le Comte Alex. de B ... ' and a note by the publisher Aubert.
Issue 124: 'Supplément', single folded sheet of pink paper (434 x c.312 mm) printed recto only, announcing the 'Théâtre des Folies-Politiques' and the first performance of 'L'Attentat Risible, ou Le Pistolet Philanthrope'.
'Among volumes devoted to pictorial satire, La Caricature is perhaps the most famous. Despite continuous harassment from its founding until its final suppression, it was unwavering in the ferocity with which it attacked Louis Philippe and his regime ... La Caricature has many kinds of importance, historical as well as artistic ... Though it had a large initial circulation, complete sets in acceptable condition have become very uncommon.' (Ray).
Also included with this copy of La Caricature is the complete set of 24 plates (23 lithographs and 1 etching) issued as La Lithographie Mensuelle (the first few issues were published as 'Catalogue des Principales Nouveautés Lithographiques'). The publication was distributed through subscription in order to raise funds to fight the many law-suits that were raised against La Caricature by the authorities. Philipon founded the 'Association pour la Liberté de la Presse' and those who donated money would receive a lithograph each month in return. It is these monthly lithographs, published over a period of two years, that form La Lithographie Mensuelle. In addition to a complete set of the plates - largely provided by Grandville and Daumier - this set includes all of the text (issued with 19 of the plates) and the rear wrappers, save that for plate VII ('Septième Dessin ... '). A full list of the plates for La Lithographie Mensuelle is available on request.
'La collection de La Lithographie Mensuelle est rare: elle ne pouvait connaître qu'un tirage restreint.' (Getty).
This complete set of La Caricature, together with La Lithographie Mensuelle, is with the bookplate of the Chateau de Rosny, owned by the famous bibliophile the Duchesse de Berry, Marie-Caroline de Bourbon Sicile (1798 - 1870).
[Ray 160; Carteret III, 111 - 112; see Clive Frank Getty (& S. Guillaume), Grandville, Dessins Originaux, Nancy, 1986].
10 'tomes' in 5 vols. 4to. (330 x 268 mm). With 251 issues, each with 4 pages of text (some with an additional 2 page 'Supplément' - ses below); plates numbered 1 - 524, plus 4 unnumbered or bis plates (total 528 plates). Printed text in French in double-columns on yellow paper throughout. Many plates with additional flaps for before and after views or trompe l'oeil effects, one movable panorama, numerous double-page or folding plates, 115 with additional hand-colouring. Each 'Tome' with front wrapper (save vol. X) and 'Table des Matières'. Contemporary aubergine morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt titles to spines with elaborate decorative tooling, marbled endpapers, marbled edges.
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