418 - Monnier, H. Les Grisettes, leurs Moeurs, leurs Habitudes, leurs bonnes Qualités, leurs Préjugés, leurs Erreurs, leurs Faiblesses, etc. Paris, Giraldon et Bovinet, 1827. Title (in copy), 42 color lithographed plates by Gaugui and Hullmandel after Henry Monnier. Large octavo. Contemporary blue calfskin binding with gilt spine, top edge, and inner edges.

Monnier, H. Les Grisettes, leurs Moeurs, leurs Habitudes, leurs bonnes Qualités, leurs Préjugés, leurs Erreurs, leurs Faiblesses, etc. Paris, Giraldon et Bovinet, 1827. Title (in copy), 42 color lithographed plates by Gaugui and Hullmandel after Henry Monnier. Large octavo. Contemporary blue calfskin binding with gilt spine, top edge, and inner edges. The French playwright, actor, and draftsman Henry Monnier (1799–1877) is considered a sarcastic but precise observer of human weaknesses during the Biedermeier period.] He produced two series of 'Grisettes' with 12 and 42 lithographs (1826 and 1827); the second series presented here is described by A. Marie (Monnier's biographer) as very rare. - Some prints are slightly stained or slightly browned.