GRAND-CARTERET John Vice and caricature in Germany-Austria-Switzerland Paris,... Lot 49

GRAND-CARTERET John Vice and caricature in Germany-Austria-Switzerland Paris, Louis Westhausser, 1885 Small folio. Chocolate half-maroquin with corners signed V. Champs. Spine with 5 nerves decorated with a mosaic pattern of stylized plants and anthropomorphic hands looking at each other. Gilded head. Frott. and scratches. Some stains on some pp. because of flowers inserted in the book. First edition with a preface by Champfleury. Work illustrated with 3 plates in colors in hors-texte, 314 vignettes, portraits and titles of newspapers. Copy of Champfleury with a dispatch from the publisher Westhausser: "to M. Champfleury the generous prefacer of the Caricature Testimony of lively gratitude the publisher Louis Westhausser." Copy on Japon (not numbered, the justification announcing 20) containing a double suite for the full page illustrations.