Bernard GAILLOT and Aloïs SENEFELDER. [Les Arts et les Métie - Lot 49

Bernard GAILLOT and Aloïs SENEFELDER. [Les Arts et les Métiers: Recueil de caricatures]. Paris, Bénard, s.d. [ca 1820]. In folio, half calf, spine with 5 ornate nerves. 30 lithographs by Senefelder after drawings by Gaillot. Each type is represented by the attributes of its trade. The volume comprises two series: - one of 18 unnumbered lithographs: optician, butcher, carpenter, pastry chef, musician, fisherman, bouquetière, upholsterer, writer, tailor, hatter, limonadière, hatter, chemist, hunter, gunsmith, butcher, cooper, surveyor - one of 12 numbered lithographs: cook, grocer, laundress, saver, creamer, bricklayer, painter, blacksmith, gardener, fruit grower, wigmaker, carpenter. Worn binding with missing spine, cracked jaws, foxing, restoration. A very rare copy of this incunabulum of lithography.