Daumier. Caricaturist by James, Henry - 1954

Miniature Books/Rodale Press. Fair with no dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. 1125278528 . 9 oz.; 36 pages; HC aged/musty story clean/tight condition feels unread. As we attempt, at the present day, to write the history of everything, it would be strange if we had happened to neglect the annals of caricature; for the very essence of the art of Cruikshank and Gavarni, of Daumier and Leech, is to be historical; and everyone knows how addicted is this great science to discoursing about itself. .

Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 1954 Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA. 1954. Hardcover. First published in this edition, 1954. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for stamp of bookseller on the FFFP. Book Condition; Good; wear through on the front lower tip; loss of much title gilt on the spine; light soiling to boards. No DJ. Cream paper over board with black cloth overlay on the spine; flaked gilt titles on spine; red crosshatched designs on boards. 34 pp 8vo square. This is a book of pictorial satire or caricature and its use in journalism. Daumier was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century. A prolific draftsman, he was perhaps best known for his caricatures of political figures and satires on the behavior of his countrymen and using their weaknesses to draw them as ugly and grotesque, raising the wrath of the upper classes. A clean very presentable copy.

Emmaus PA: Rodale Press, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Daumier is known for social and political caricature. 16 plates.; 6 1/2 x 8

Emmaus: Rodale, 1954. 36pp. Corners chipped & bumped. Illus. No Dj.. Hb. G/No Dj.

Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press; Miniature Books, 1954. 34 pages, illustrations; 20 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Titles rubbed off spine. Foxing/endpapers. Age toning. 1st thus.. 1st. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 8vo.

London: Rodale/ Minature Books, 1954. 1st Edition thus . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Gold-stamped black cloth spine w/ diamond-patterned red/white aged bds. Large waterstain to edges back cover, interior unaffected. 1 worn corner. No names, clean text. With b/w repros. "Printed in England at the Chiswick Press." 18182 shelf

Rodale Press, 1954. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fair. Some marking on covers; contents clean

Rodale Press, London. 1954 1st. edn. thus. 4to. pp36. 16 plates. Orig decorated cloth backed, paper covered boards, gilt to spine. Boards somewhat foxed, with shelfwear to corners. Loc2btm

NY: The Century Company, 1890. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 12pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 18 examples, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XXXIX, No. 3, January, 1890. Illustrator and caricaturist Honore Daumier. Includes drawings of De Tocqueville, Coquerel, Victor Hugo, Thiers, Casmajon Ratapoil, and a portrait of the subject. Housed in a mylar report cover..

Rodale, 1954. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. With the wrap around band that states 'this is a miniature book five shillings net'. C. page states 'first published this edition 1954 by the Rodale Press, 123 New Bond Street, London printed in England at the Chiswick Press.' Pitting at board edges. One corner bumped/rubbed.