first edition
by CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé)
Paris: Martinet, 1850. The Art of Success in the World!
An Ironic, Satiric Burlesque by Cham
CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé). L'Art de Réussir dans le Monde. Procédé Simple et Facile pour se Faire Jeter a la Porte en Fort peu de Temps. Paris: Martinet, [n.d., c. 1850].
Large quarto (13 1/8 x 10 in; 337 x 253 mm). Lithographed title with large hand-colored pictorial vignette, twenty hand-colored lithographed plates by Fernique after Cham, the plates containing three or more images (a total of sixty-two), each with droll captions.
Publisher's illustrated pink boards. Spine expertly and almost invisibly repaired, lightly scuffed at board extremities A clean and bright example with the plates in very fine and clean state.
A fine copy of a very rare volume with OCLC/KVK locating only two copies in institutions worldwide, at the Victoria & Albert Library and Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire (Strasbourg).
"It is to be regretted that space will not serve to represent the caricaturists and depictors of manners who followed in the wake of Daumier and Gavarni. Among the most attractive of the former is Amédée de Noé, known as Cham (that is, Ham, the son of Noah) of whom it was said that he had 'an idea a day' for Le charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums. His contributions to the Album du siège , in which Daumier was his collaborator, are typical of his work" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, pp. 155-156).
Bobins IV, 1348. (Inventory #: 05994)
An Ironic, Satiric Burlesque by Cham
CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé). L'Art de Réussir dans le Monde. Procédé Simple et Facile pour se Faire Jeter a la Porte en Fort peu de Temps. Paris: Martinet, [n.d., c. 1850].
Large quarto (13 1/8 x 10 in; 337 x 253 mm). Lithographed title with large hand-colored pictorial vignette, twenty hand-colored lithographed plates by Fernique after Cham, the plates containing three or more images (a total of sixty-two), each with droll captions.
Publisher's illustrated pink boards. Spine expertly and almost invisibly repaired, lightly scuffed at board extremities A clean and bright example with the plates in very fine and clean state.
A fine copy of a very rare volume with OCLC/KVK locating only two copies in institutions worldwide, at the Victoria & Albert Library and Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire (Strasbourg).
"It is to be regretted that space will not serve to represent the caricaturists and depictors of manners who followed in the wake of Daumier and Gavarni. Among the most attractive of the former is Amédée de Noé, known as Cham (that is, Ham, the son of Noah) of whom it was said that he had 'an idea a day' for Le charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums. His contributions to the Album du siège , in which Daumier was his collaborator, are typical of his work" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, pp. 155-156).
Bobins IV, 1348. (Inventory #: 05994)