Some libertine (2 resultados)

1976. (stiff paper covers) Very good. 82pp. Map, tables, bibliography, notes. There is minor underlining in the text. Contributors include Pierre Berton (Heritage Preservation), Wilhelm Kristjanson (John Taylor and the Pioneer Icelandic Settlement in Manitoba and His Plea on Behalf of the Persecuted Jewish People), Rodger Letourneau (Grand Rapids Tramway: the First Railway in the Canadian Northwest), Ian MacPherson (George Chipman and the Institutionalization of A Reform Movement), Linda Mcdowall (Some Women Candidates for the Manitoba Legislature), Peter B. Waite (Chartered Libertine? A Case Against Sir John A. MacDonald and Some Answers). Locale: ; British Columbia; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. Series: Manitoba Historical Society Series III 28. (Manitoba, Fur Trade, Methodist Church, Water).…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. AN INCUNABLE OF LITHOGRAPHY [ISABEY, Jean-Baptiste (1767-1855)] -- Caricatures de J.J. Paris: Chez l'auteur et chez Alphonse Giroux, 1818. Album in oblong folio, 250 x 335 mm., 19th century green textured cloth and calf spine, handsomely titled in gilt. FIRST EDITION. Complete set of 12 lithographed plates, the first signed in autograph by Isabey in the l.r. corner, othesr signed in plate by Charles Etienne Pierre Motte, the French lithographer and printer. Some plates with some foxing, but delicately and attractively printed. An incunable of lithography. "Cette suite de caricatures est interessante pour les modes de l'epoque" (Colas) . An important and rare set with several libertine subjects as plates. Colas 1519; Bibliotheque Esmerian IV, lot 62 This is one of the earliest known individual artist portfolios in the new medium of lithography "Isabey, a respected painter though not an academician, clearly did not want to be publicly identified with caricature. The same year he published a portfolio of "serious" lithographic drawings that displayed his full name.A parallel could be drawn to the literary history of the novel, which, despite its success with the public, was not considered a respectable art form; early novelists, too, often concealed their identity. " (Ref: Mainardi, P .Another World: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Print Culture, p. 46). …