Paris: Chez Bauger, 1834. Midnight in Paris - Gavarni and the Secret Theater of Carnival A Superb Hand-Colored Copy of Le Carnaval à Paris in the Original Publisher’s Binding Together with the Very Rare and Complete Suite of Les Bals Masqués GAVARNI, Paul [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier]. Le Carnaval..... More

Paris: Aubert & Cie., 1837. A Superb Composite Album of Hand-Colored Parisian Social Satire Frédéric Bouchot’s Comic Theater of Debt, Romance, Carnival, and Bourgeois Folly in July Monarchy Paris BOUCHOT, Frédéric. Débiteurs et Créanciers; Contributions indirectes; Après le carnaval; Les Malheurs d'un amant heureux; together with Les embellissements de Paris..... More

London: Collected and Published by Thomas M'Lean, 1824. The Golden Age of English Sporting Color-Plate Books A Monumental Regency Collection of Henry Alken’s Finest Sporting & Humorous Designs Over 320 Hand-Colored Plates in Three Elephant Folio Volumes ALKEN, Henry. A Collection of Sporting and Humorous Designs, Comprising A Variety of..... More

London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row, 1821. "Indeed, the Taste for it Amounted to a Craze" EGAN, Pierce. [CRUIKSHANK, George and Robert, illustrators]. Life In London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorne, Esq. and His Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian..... More

London: Printed for C.S. Arnold, 1825. “The Life of an Actor” - Theatrical Life in the Age of Kean Pierce Egan’s Celebrated Portrait of the Stage, Richly Illustrated EGAN, Pierce. The Life of an Actor… Dedicated to Edmund Kean, Esq. The Poetical Descriptions by T. Greenwood. Embellished with Twenty-Seven Characteristic..... More

London: Pub.…at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1812. The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax [ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator]. [COMBE, William]. The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque. A Poem. London: Pub.…at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1812. First edition, first issue, with p. 1 reading “Chapter I” and..... More

London: Printed by J. Diggins; Published at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1815. Rowlandson at His Zenith The English Dance of Death & The Dance of Life - The Great Ackermann Color-Plate Masterpieces [ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator]. [COMBE, William]. The English Dance of Death, from the Designs of Thomas Rowlandson, with..... More

Pont-a-Mousson: Haguenthal, 1860. “Barracks, Blunders, and Bonhomie - Randon’s Comic Life of the French Trooper” RANDON, Gilbert. La Vie de Troupier Charges et Fantasais, À Pied, À Cheval &.a Par Randon. Paris: Maison Martinet, [ca. 1860]. Folio (13 1/2 x 10 inches; 343 x 254 mm.). Hand colored etched title-page..... More

London: Published by the Author, at His Music-Warehouse…, 1803. Sixty Aquatint Plates Illustrating Charles Dibdin’s Songs Delicately Designed, Etched and Hand-Colored by Dibdin’s daughter DIBDIN, [Charles]. The Professional Life of Mr. Dibdin, Written by Himself. Together with the Words of Six Hundred Songs Selected from His Works, and Sixty Small..... More

Paris: Hautecoeur-Martinet, 1819-1831. A Superb and Exceptionally Rare Collection of Mr. Mayeux “To say that he is vulgar is totally inadequate” TRAVIÈS, Charles Joseph. Histoire Complette de Mr. Mayeux, Dessinée par divers Artistes et coloriée avec soin. Paris: Hautecoeur-Martinet, 1831. [Together with]: Album Mayeux. Portraits Imagerie Populaire [cover title]. [Paris..... More

London: R. Ackermann, 1799. A Window into London Street Life in 1799 ROWLANDSON, Thomas. Cries of London. London: R. Ackermann's 101 Strand, Pub: Jan: 1st, 1799. First edition early impressions. Square folio 14 1/4 x 11 3/8 inches; 358 x 289 mm.). Eight superb contemporaneously hand-colored, untrimmed etched aquatint plates..... More

Paris: Chez Aubert, 1840. Sixty Superb Hand Colored Lithographs from three of Gavarni's Most Celebrated Series GAVARNI, Paul (pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier). Les Étudiants de Paris [&] Le Carnaval à Paris [&] Les Débardeurs. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1840–1842. Folio (13 × 9 in.; 330 × 250 mm). An exceptional..... More

London: Printed for J. Taylor, 1826, 1826. London’s Principal Theatres during the Georgian Era as shown in Fourteen Fine Hand Colored Aquatint Plates BRAYLEY, Edward Wedlake. HAVELL, Daniel (illustrator). Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Theatres of London: Illustrated with a view of each theatre, elegantly coloured, drawn and engraved..... More