Cham - Collection Of Several Booklets. Le Charivari, Martinet, De Vresse, Circa 1850.

CHAM - Another album. Spahis and Turcos. The Hunter's Handbook. Contemporary sketches. Paris has fun. These pretty gentlemen and charming little ladies. The civil code. The Civil Code continued. Illustrated grammar. Arithmetic. Geometry lessons. The London Exhibition. The Illustrated Stock Exchange. Shrovetide. New clothes! New stripes!. Paris, Le Charivari, Martinet, De Vresse, circa 1850; in-4, around 300 pp., period brown half-calf binding, smooth spine, marbled edges. Collection of Cham albums. His real name Amédée de Noé, caricaturist born in 1818 and died in 1879, he mainly collaborated with the newspaper Le Charivari and Illustration, inspired by Honoré Daumier. He caricatures the celebrities of his time, Proudhon and the deputies of the National Assembly. He also caricatures theater actors being himself a playwright. Cham could claim to be one of the fathers of comics, his albums being contemporary with those of Töppfer.