Description
GROSE (François). PRINCIPLES OF CARICATURES, followed by an essay on comic painting. Translated into French, with augmentations. Paris, from Antoine-Augustin Renouard, year X 1802. Large in-8 of 48 pages, a frontispiece and 28 plates, 6 of which folding, purple box, boards decorated with caricatural motifs, lining of the same, beige suede endpapers, half box folder with suede interior, lined case (J. Vignon, 1997). "Although the art of caricature is, with some reason, generally regarded as a dangerous talent... There is much injustice in wanting to condemn an art on the basis of the abuse that can be made of it" (Preface) First French edition. Printed at 200 copies on vellum paper, it was established by Renouard himself, who revised the translation. The illustration includes a caricatured self-portrait by Grose and 28 copper-engraved plates, six of which are folded, all engraved by J. Grohmann. A large-margined copy, entirely mounted on mitre and admirably preserved in an elegant contemporary ornate binding signed by Jacky Vignon (Brunet II, 1763).
101
GROSE (François). PRINCIPLES OF CARICATURES, followed by an essay on comic painting. Translated into French, with augmentations. Paris, from Antoine-Augustin Renouard, year X 1802. Large in-8 of 48 pages, a frontispiece and 28 plates, 6 of which folding, purple box, boards decorated with caricatural motifs, lining of the same, beige suede endpapers, half box folder with suede interior, lined case (J. Vignon, 1997). "Although the art of caricature is, with some reason, generally regarded as a dangerous talent... There is much injustice in wanting to condemn an art on the basis of the abuse that can be made of it" (Preface) First French edition. Printed at 200 copies on vellum paper, it was established by Renouard himself, who revised the translation. The illustration includes a caricatured self-portrait by Grose and 28 copper-engraved plates, six of which are folded, all engraved by J. Grohmann. A large-margined copy, entirely mounted on mitre and admirably preserved in an elegant contemporary ornate binding signed by Jacky Vignon (Brunet II, 1763).
