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All auctions / Books, Maps & Manuscripts / Gavarni - La Mascarade Humaine - 1881
The Human Masquerade illustrated with 100 full-page plates by Gavarni - Original edition - Introduction by Ludovic Halévy; History of Politics, The Remarks of Thomas Vireloque, The Bohemians, Ways of Seeing Travelers, The Terrible Parents - Paris, Calmann Lévy, Publisher 1881, Magnificent publisher's binding in red percaline, signed by C. Magnier on the rear board, front board titled and adorned with a vast gold decorative composition, smooth spine adorned with the author's name in gold, rear board illustrated at the center with a composition bearing Magnier's monogram in a shield, 215 pages, format in-4° (23 x 32 cm) - Ex-libris of Charles de Samblanx, famous Belgian art binder (late 19th and first half of the 20th century) - Excellent condition - Gavarni is considered one of the keenest observers of Parisian society under the July Monarchy and the Second Empire. Less politically engaged than his contemporary Honoré Daumier, he specialized in satirizing human behaviors, daily life, and the psychology of his contemporaries. He remains famous for his morals caricatures -
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