Description: Pictorial album 29.7 x 24 cm, bound in ¾ red morocco over marbled boards with gilt lettering “LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE DES ROMANS” and raised bands to spine; marbled endpapers, two flyleaves, tan original wrapper lettered “La Bibliothèque des Romans. (gothic, arch) | {colour vignette} | UNE VEILLÉE DE JEUNE FILLE. | 1840. || Six hand-coloured lithographs, each in a double-rule border with the series title above it and image title below. Sequential numbers are hand-inscribed within the border in the upper-right corner. Frame 23.5 x 18.3 cm, image 21.5 x 16.5 cm. Three flyleaves at the end. A bookplate to front pastedown: “GERARD NORDMANN EX-LIBRIS”.
Content:
- Front wrapper (title-page)
- SŒUR ANNE (Sister Anne)
- LA GRISETTE (The grisette)
- LÉONIDE OU LA VIEILLE DE SURÊNE (Léonide or the old lady of Surêne)
- LA PUCELLE DE BELLEVILLE (The maid of Belleville)
- MON VOISIN RAYMOND (My neighbor Raymond)
- LE COCU (The cuckold)
Catalogue raisonné: Nordmann/Christie’s (I) № 127, p. 86 (Lithographic title and 6 erotic plates, in the Romantic style of Achille Devéria. Original pictorial front wrapper preserved)
Provenance: Gérard Nordmann (French, 1930 – 1992).
Achille Jacques-Jean-Marie Devéria (French, 1800 – 1857).
Additional Information
| Collection | European prints and drawings |
|---|---|
| Type / Purpose | Pictorial album |
| Period | 19 AD , Mid-19th century |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Media/Technique | Hand-coloured lithograph on paper , Lithography , Paper , Wove paper |
| Subject | Erotica , Humour , Lithography , Sex , Sexual behavior and attitudes , Sexual life , Sexuality |
| Creation / Publishing year | 1842 |
| Edition | 1st edition , Clandestine edition |
| Binding | 3/4 , Hardcover , Morocco |
| Catalogue raisonne | Nordmann (Christie's) |
| Location | TANTSU 2.5. |
| Acquisition year | 2022 |
