[Rarebooks] FS: Set of 60 Imagerie d'Epinal Comic Broadsides

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

Complete Set of 60 Imagerie d'Epinal Comic Broadsides.

Kansas, Missouri, 1880s.

The George A. Smathers Library at Florida University notes- “Imagerie 
d'Epinal were pictorial broadsheets that told simple tales done by the 
Imagerie Pellerin of France, and reprinted by the Humoristic Publishing 
Co. in Kansas, Missouri. These are important for the history of comics 
and printing. In Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer, David 
Kunzle compares Töpffer's "kind of graphic naïvete and that of the truly 
unschooled and awkward Imagerie d'Epinal". Kunzle argues "the subsequent 
history of the comic strip occupies this middle ground but inclining 
more to Töpffer than imagerie populaire". Kunzle's overall analysis 
places Töpffer alongside the likes of Gustave Doré, William Hogarth, 
Willhelm Busch, and George Cruikshank in publications like Punch, Le 
Charivari, L'Illustration, and Illustrated London News”.

60 sheets. 12”x16”. Some sheets with wear and chipping and loss, a few 
with tears; plate 25 badly torn in several places across the images, but 
with no actual loss to the images.  [42719]  $450

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