The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 1700 - 1914 (2 vol. set)

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1982. Paperback. New, still in shrinkwrap. Both vols. red cloth with white ill. DJ. Vol. I: xxiv, 246 pp. Vol. II: Pp. 247 - 557. Both vols illustrated with 620+ bw figures, 16 pp. of color plates. Contents pof this amazing set as follows: v. 1. Preface -- Introduction for collectors -- The catalogue -- Forerunners -- I: From Baroque to Rococo (1700-1749). Bernard Picart ; Philippe d'Orléans ; Claude Gillot ; Charles-Antoine Coypel ; Jean-Baptiste Oudry ; Francois Boucher ; Charles-Nicolas Cochin -- II: High Rococo (1750-1788). (truncated) Hubert-François Bourguignon, called Gravelot ; Charles Eisen ; Abbé Jean-Claude-Richard de Saint-Non ; Pierre-Philippe Choffard ; Charles Monnet ; Jean-Baptiste Le Prince ; Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier ; Pierre-Clément Marillier ; Jean-Michel Moreau, called Moreau le Jeune ; Jacques de Sève ; Books illustrated by two or more artists ; Jacques-Philippe-Joseph de Saint-Quentin -- III: Revolution to Restoration (1789-1819). The Didots and their illustrators ; Pierre-Paul Prud'hon ; Jean-Honoré Fragonard ; The contemporary scene ; Color printing ; The miniature illustrators ; Nicolas-André Monsiau -- IV: Romantic lithography. Early lithography ; Théodore Géricault ; Baron Taylor and the picturesque ; Richard Parkes Bonington ; The Napoleonic epic: Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet, Hippolyte Bellangé, Auguste Raffet ; The passing scene presented in color: Jean-Ignace-Julien Gérard, called J.-J. Grandville, Henry Monnier, Eugène Lami ; Lithography and romantic literature: Eugène Delacroix, The periodicals ; Sulpice-Guillaume Chevallier, called Gavarni ; Honoré Daumier.
v. 2. V: Romantic engraving on wood and metal (1820-1850). The early years (1820-1835) ; Alfred and Tony Johannot ; Jean-Ignace-Julien Gérard, called J.-J. Grandville ; Raffet and other illustrators of the Napoleonic tradition ; Sulpice-Guillaume Chevallier, called Gavarni ; Célestin Nanteuil ; Other books illustrated by single artists: Jean-François Gigoux, Théophile Fragonard, Honoré Daumier, Eugène Lami, Théodore Chassériau, Albert-d'Arnoux Bertall ; Books illustrated by two or more artists -- VI: Interregnum (185I-1884). Gustave Doré ; Other books with engravings on wood or metal ; Chromolithography ; The revival of etching ; Edouard Manet -- VII: The great renewal (1885-1914). The traditional book: Edouard Pelletan, Paul Avril, Hector Giacomelli, Léon Lhermitte, Maurice Leloir, Daniel Urrabieta, called Daniel Vierge, Luc-Olivier Merson, Georges Jeanniot, Albert Robida, Adolphe Giraldon, Georges Rochegrosse, Charles-Lucien Léandre, Alexandre Lunois, Henri-Jules-Ferdinand Bellery-Desfontaines, Paul-Emile Colin, The younger generation ; Paris, 1900: Auguste Lepère, Pierre Vidal, Jean-Francois Raffaëlli, Jean-Louis Forain, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Louis Legrand, Louis Morin, Charles Jouas, Edgar Chahine, Tony Minartz, Illustrators of Maupassant ; Art Nouveau and the triumph of color. Eugène Grasset, Jules Chéret, The periodicals, Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Alphonse Mucha, Georges de Feure, Pierre Roche ; Symbolism: Félicien Rops, Henri Fantin-Latour, Odilon Redon, Carlos Schwabe, Armand Séguin, Maurice Denis ; Painters' books: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard, Auguste Rodin, Gustave Leheutre, Frantisek Kupka, André Derain, Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Raoul Dufy, Camille Pissarro, Emile Bernard, Albert Besnard -- Appendix I: Examples of fine bindings -- Appendix II: One hundred outstanding French illustrated books, 1700-1914. (Inventory #: 176741)