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Moeurs Administrative dessinés d'aprés nature By Henry MONNIER

Creator: Henry Monnier
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
MONNIER, Henry, illustrator
Moeurs Administrative dessinés d'aprés nature
[with] Six quartiers de Paris [with] Moeurs Parisiennes [with] [Collection of six handcoloured lithographed plates on Parisian life] [with ] [Collection of six handcoloured lithographed plates on London life].

Stock Code 82650
Delpech Paris and London, 1828

Current price $7,122.00
This unusual volume contains a fine set of handcoloured plates on both Parisian and London life. The illustrator Monnier spent two years in London from 1825-27 and when he returned to Paris he embarked on a series of albums in which he recorded the manners and life of both cities.

Folio (34 x 264 cm). 2 title-pages with handcoloured vignettes, 44 hand-coloured lithographed plates, some occasional foxing throughout, all captioned, bound in contemporary green morocco backed boards, hinges cracked; overall a good copy.

Lipperheide 3662; Ray, "The Art of the French Illustrated Book".

More Information

Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (similar item)
Period:	19th Century
Creation Date:	1828
Styles / Movements:	Traditional
Dealer Reference #:	82650
Incollect Reference #:	692446

Dimensions

W.	103.94 in;	H.	13.39 in;
W.	264 cm;	H.	34 cm;

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