GAILLOT (Bernard). Lot n° 27

Arts and crafts. Recueil de caricatures. Paris, Bénard, [1838]. In-folio, in sheets, pink delivery cover with the printed title. Rare complete series of the 30 lithographs representing portraits made with the instruments and objects used by the trades represented. The drawings are by Bernard Gaillot, a pupil of David. They were lithographed in the workshop of Aloys Senefelder, the inventor of the lithography technique. List of plates: The trades: 1. the cook. - 2. grocer. - 3 The laundress. - 4. savoury maker. - 5. The creamer. - 6. The mason. - 7) The painter artist. - 8) The blacksmith. - 9. The gardener. - 10. The fruit-grower. - 11. The wigmaker. - 12. The carpenter. Arts and crafts, 18 unencrypted plates: The gunsmith. - The sinner. - The butcher. - Chemist. - The hunter. - The flower girl. - The carpenter. - The butcher. - The hatter. - The writer. - The surveyor. - The cooper. - The lemonade maker. - The upholsterer. - The tailor. - The pie maker. - The musician. - The optician. A few freckles or yellowed leaves, edges of the blanket scratched, with small tears that are not missing.