LA SILHOUETTE, newspaper of caricatures, Fine Arts, Drawings - Lot 174

LA SILHOUETTE, newspaper of caricatures, Fine Arts, Drawings, Manners, Theatres, etc. Paris Rue neuve-des-petits-champs, n°28. 1830. 4 vol. in-4. Purple half-chagrin, marbled paper boards, smooth spine, quadruple gilt fillet imitating the nerves, gilt title and tomaison, later binding. Well complete with the 52 issues. A total of 105 engravings including 47 colour plates. Scattered foxing more pronounced on some plates. First volume: No title page, handwritten title in ink with the date 1829. Complete with 13 issues of 8 pages of text, each issue numbered in pencil at the top of the first page. 27 plates of which 13 are in colour. The plate "la Marquise" is in 3 states: 2 in colour and one in black. Missing the plate "Repos dans la campagne", in issue 7. Tear to one of the colour plates, Missing the small mirror to the face on the black plate. The seventh issue has only one plate. Delivery 9: One plate printed on purple paper and restoration to the other plate of the same delivery. Second volume: No title page. Complete of the 13 issues. 27 plates of which 13 in colour. The plate "Il n'est plus temps" in two states colour and black. Third volume : Title page with mention : third volume and the date of 1830. Complete with the 13 issues. 27 plates including 13 colour plates. The plate "a Jesuit" in two states, one in colour. Missing the plate "Citoyen général", in the 13th issue. Fourth volume: No title page. Complete with all 13 issues. 24 plates of which 11 are in colour. Missing two plates, "La liberté fera le tour du monde" and "Mon cher je ne fais plus le mouchoir", in issues 9 and 11. Restoration page 11, Tear with missing page 57, rough restoration of pages 82 to 88. Restoration to plate "Mayeux au Tuilerie". The Silhouette contains not only Honoré Daumier's first lithograph entitled Passe ton Chemin; cochon (volume III, p. 39) but also many articles by Honoré de Balzac in first edition. "Rare. This review was the first attempt at a newspaper of caricatures; its founders were Emile de Girardin, Balzac and de Varaigne; Henry Monnier and Gavarni also devoted their wit and pencil to it (...) There is therefore a Balzac to be discovered, who is half-buried in the cemetery of the Silhouette." Vicaire, VII, 500 to 507. Carteret, III, 563.