CHANTS ET CHANSONS POPULAIRES DE LA FRANCE. Paris,... - Lot 51 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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CHANTS ET CHANSONS POPULAIRES DE LA FRANCE. Paris,... - Lot 51 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
CHANTS ET CHANSONS POPULAIRES DE LA FRANCE. Paris, Deloye, 1843. Three large volumes in-8, half blue morocco with corners, spines decorated, untrimmed, illustrated covers and spines preserved (Noulhac). First edition. Famous and superb work, one of the most beautiful publications of the time, published in 84 issues, each comprising a four-page printed text with notice and music and a part, also four pages long, entirely engraved, containing the illustrated text of the songs. The rich illustration, engraved in intaglio, includes three drypoint title-frontispieces after Trimolet and a large number of compositions after Daubigny, Grandville, Trimolet, Steinheil, Boily, De Beaumont, Meissonnier, etc. The general covers of the three series, printed in green, blue and gold, all reproduced by Carteret, "are among the most beautiful of the illustrated works of the 19th century" (Carteret, III, p. 150). Superb copy, with its general covers preserved in perfect condition, enriched with: - La Marseillaise, additional issue published in the 1848 edition, comprising 4 pages on the model of the previous ones, with its blue issue cover. - The complete collection of the 83 issue covers, pink for the first ones, then yellow, (the work was published in 84 issues, but issues 43 and 44 were published under the same cover). All these covers are illustrated with the same composition - that of the publication poster - engraved on steel for the first five, on wood for the following ones. The cover of the 4th issue is shown here in two copies. - three very beautiful original drawings carefully mounted on cardboard in a black and gold fillet frame and bound at the head of each of the volumes, including one by Steinheil for the song La danse n'est pas ce que j'aime (volume I) and two by Trimolet, one of which is a very beautiful hunting scene for Tontaine, Tonton, (volume II), the other for Le gascon (volume III) "One sometimes meets original drawings of this work, they are of a great smoothness of execution; we recommend not to let escape the occasion to acquire them to stuff a copy" (Carteret).
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