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Les compensations / composées et dessinées par Ch. Philipon ; lithographiées par Wattier.

Accession number
PML 146366
Creator
Philipon, Charles, 1800-1862.
Published
A Paris : Publiées par Ostervald l'aîné, [ca. 1828]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from title sheet; within title design, in smaller letters: Systême des compensations.
Unbound published set of 48 hand colored lithographic caricatures, presented as 24 numbered pairs (i.e. "1" and "1 bis", "2" and "2 bis", etc.), with illustrated title sheet; each plate signed directly below image, "Ch. Philipon in. et del.", "Lith. de Ducarme", and "Wattier lith."
Library's copy incomplete, lacking 12 of 48 plates, comprising the sequence numbered "7" and "7 bis" through "12" and "12 bis".
Description
48 leaves of plates : chiefly hand col. ill. (lithograph) ; 35 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Michael Sadleir on accompanying folder; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department