[GOSTIAUX-PHOSTY]. - Lot 183

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[GOSTIAUX-PHOSTY]. - Lot 183
[GOSTIAUX-PHOSTY]. Album-alphabet of large wild animals & sea fish. Imagerie d'Epinal. Pellerin & Cie imp-edit. [About 1905]. Oblong folio (29 x 39,5 cm). 14 pages: publisher's album, burgundy percaline spine, soft cardboard boards illustrated in colors, two children facing wild animals, blue ornate frame on the first one, two leopards framing the title on the second one. Large imagier for children composed of twelve lithographed and stenciled plates by Gabriel Gostiaux, known as Phosty (1838-ca. 1920). A humorist and lithographer, he collaborated to several newspapers from 1865 to 1882 and worked for Pellerin between 1902 and 1905. The plates show wild animals (lion, tiger, elephants... whose names are placed at the foot) and the last one fish. At the beginning of the book, two pages illustrated with animals in black with alphabets, "all kinds of words" and texts of first readings separated in syllables. Rubbing on the boards, small soiling in the lower margin of some leaves. Attached: - [GOSTIAUX-PHOSTY]. Album-alphabet of large domestic animals and fish. La Joie des Bébés. Imagerie d'Epinal. Pelerin & Cie imp-edit. [About 1905]. Oblong folio (29 x 39,8 cm). 14 ff : publisher's album, cream cloth spine, soft cardboard boards illustrated in color. Spine and flyleaves renewed, small traces of wetness at the edge of the boards. Crack at the foot of the first. - Illustrated alphabet. Les Grands Albums de bébé. Imagerie-Imprimerie Marcel Vagné. Jarville-Nancy. [Around 1880]. In-folio (40,5 x 28,2 cm). 18 pp : soft cardboard covers, the first one lithographed and stenciled. Very large format alphabet book with a cover signed by the painter Maurice Blum (1832-1909). Marcel Vagné was a workshop manager at Haguenthal, which he bought in 1881. Two large two-tone illustrations on the reverse of the covers for the A and Z and seven pages of illustrated alphabet, including a central double page, lithographed and colored. Covers soiled, restored split on one leaf, staples replaced with thread. Three primers of very large format.
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