CHAM No‚, Am‚d‚e de L'Art de R‚ussir dans le Monde. c. 1850
The Art of Success in the World!An Ironic, Satiric Burlesque by ChamCHAM [Pseudonym of Charles Am‚d‚e de No‚]. L'Art de R‚ussir dans le Monde. Proc‚d‚ Simple et Facile pour se Faire Jeter a la Porte en Fort peu de Temps. Paris: Martinet, [n.d., c. 1850]. Large quarto (13 1/8 x 10 in; 337 x 253 mm). Lithographed title with large hand-colored pictorial vignette, twenty hand-colored lithographed plates by Fernique after Cham, the plates containing three or more images (a total of sixty-two), each with droll captions.,Original lithographed pictorial front wrapper onlaid to twentieth-century boards. Light waterstain to title, last plate lightly soiled, otherwise a fine copy of a very rare volume with OCLC/KVK locating only two copies in institutions worldwide, at the Victoria & Albert Library and BibliothŠque Nationale et Universitaire (Strasbourg)."It is to be regretted that space will not serve to represent the caricaturists and depictors of manners who followed in the wake of Daumier and Gavarni. Among the most attractive of the former is Am‚d‚e de No‚, known as Cham (that is, Ham, the son of Noah) of whom it was said that he had an idea a day for Le charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums. His contributions to the Album du siŠge , in which Daumier was his collaborator, are typical of his work (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, pp. 155-156).
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