- Lacks 10 plates and backwr.; remaining leaves loose and occas. sl. frayed; all leaves w. traces of former tipping-on in corners on verso; frontwr. partly browned and foxed.

= Nice and rare series of handcol. lithographs, each with 2 illustrations showing the opposite situations that man can find himself in: i.a. a man whom fortune has favoured and a man who is disgraced; a man with a frugal meal and a gastronome who has just had a copious meal and finished three bottles of wine, and a man who has just beheaded a woman as opposed to a lady and a pious girl offering food to a beggar in the street. No copy traced in the market. Beraldi p.144. SEE ILLLUSTRATION PLATE.

AND 8 others caricatures by J. PLATIER (act. ±1840), from the series of 100 "Croquis d'Expressions" (all contemp. handcol. and gommé lithographs, each ±27,5x36 cm. (leaf), Paris, ±1840. Three prints sl. foxed/ sl. duststained; one also sl. frayed).