DAUMIER (Honoré). Les Cent et un Robert-Macaire. Paris : Aubert et Cie, 1839. - 2 volumes in-4, 267 x 198 : (104 ff.) ; (106 ff.). Half red calf with corners, gilt fillets, spine with false nerves decorated with gilt and cold motifs, gilt head, untrimmed (Ad. Lavaux). First edition with 101 lithographs by Honoré DAUMIER which are the reduction of the plates published in large format in-4 in 1836-1838. the caption of the penultimate illustration showing "Robert-Macaire chez Daumier", defines perfectly what this series of caricatures represents: "It is the exact painting of the voleries of our time... It is the faithful portrait of a crowd of rascals that we find everywhere, in commerce, in politics, in finance, everywhere! everywhere !!! ». The edition consists of two volumes, each containing a false title, a title, a false title of volume, a table and respectively 50 and 51 issues, each of them comprising 4 pages, the first 2 and the 4th being occupied by the text and the 3rd by the illustration. The "comic and explanatory" texts, according to the terms used by Aubert in his catalogue, are by Maurice Alhoy and Louis Huart. The ideas and captions of the figures are by Charles Philipon. A very nice copy bound by Lavaux, offering the lithographs in their black state. Without the catalogue of the illustrated books of the Aubert house. Spines faded. Provenance : Mr Lordereau aîné, with ex-libris.