Thirteen catalogues (21-27 cm), in publisher’s pictorial wrappers, as issued. - Eleven catalogues from Benoît Forgeot’s numbered series, and one catalogue issued hors série. ¶ Very good, unmarked copies.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 5] Albums romantiques
Paris, Benoît Forgeot, 1998
(21 × 27 cm), 87 (1) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 113 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Books by Daumier and Grandville, Gavarni and Cham, Doré and Isabey, Boilly père et files, Coignard, Monnier and Lamy, etc., all “provenant de la collection C.R.”. “The most exciting individual item was a collection of Grandville etchings, some unrecorded, with an original ink drawing” (from a notice in The Book Collector, Winter 1998, p.542).
(24 cm), [64] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 39 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial self-wrappers. - Includes (item 39) an exceptional album of 124 prints by Jean-Bernard Turreau, detto Toro (1661-1731), bound in contemporary calf.