836 - Duplessi-Bertaux, J.

Duplessi-Bertaux, J. An album for young people, amateurs, and artists, comprising twenty-five diverse subjects—arts and crafts, horses, hunts, military scenes, views, and landscapes adorned with architectural features and animals, etc.—drawn and etched by the late J. Duplessi-Bertaux. Preceded by a portrait of the author and a historical note on the “petits maîtres” Callot, La Belle, and Sébastien Leclerc. Presented to His Royal Highness the Duke of Bordeaux by (Jean-François) Joubert. Paris, J. Didot aine for Joubert, 1823. Quarto. [1] leaf, 16 pp., [1] leaf, 1 etched portrait, and 25 mounted drypoint etchings on China paper. Contemporary wine-red morocco leather binding with blind-stamped spine and cover ornamentation, blind-stamped coat-of-arms supralibros of the French King Charles X, and gold edges. Benezit IV, 32. Quérard II, 704. - First edition. - Deluxe edition on vellum. With period illustrations by the prominent French painter, draftsman, and etcher Jean Duplessi-Bertaux (also J. Duplessis-Bertaux, 1747–1820); including seven depictions of trades (road construction, a cookware workshop, a barber, a mason, roof tile manufacturing, a blacksmith, and a hat shop). The other plates depict a jacks player, hunting scenes, students at the Lycée Royal and a girls’ boarding school, as well as a field kitchen and other military scenes, including the Battle of Waterloo. - A magnificently bound copy from the library of Charles-Philippe de France (1757–1836), who ascended to the French throne in 1824 as Charles X, succeeding his brother Louis XVIII. - Headband discreetly restored, foot slightly damaged, joints somewhat worn, text pages showing some light brown spots on the margins and backing paper; a beautiful, magnificently bound copy. - Provenance: Hubert Guerrand-Hermès Collection, associated with the Duchess of Berry, December 15, 2023, Sotheby’s, Paris.