LE PETIT - Lot 367

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LE PETIT - Lot 367
LE PETIT Alfred LE PETIT - Flowers, fruits & vegetables of the day. Legends by H. BRIOLLET. Paris, Au Bureau de l'Eclipse, 1871. Petit in-4, full red percaline, title in gold lettering. Title and 30 (of 31) lithographed colour plates. Amusing album of caricatures, mounted on tabs, in which various political personalities are represented as flowers or vegetables: Gambetta in sunshine, Edgar Quinet in violet, Garibaldi in laurel, Thiers in pear... According to Béraldi, in Les Graveurs du XIXe siècle, p. 137, about the caricatures of the 1871 war and the Commune, "it is one of the most sought-after series" Provenance: ex-libris Victor Luerquin. Scattered freckles.
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