[FRONDAS Charles-Louis de FRONDAT dit - Lot 160

[FRONDAS Charles-Louis de FRONDAT dit Carved chestnuts. Duclaux Paris s.d. (1871). E.O. with 26 plates numbered 1-24 (there are two second plates), all in color (At the CCF, the repositories that present our collection (BnF, Bibliothèque Thiers, Agen, Montpellier) all give a different collation, ranging from 20 to 29 plates). Modern binding, small in-4, cherry demichagrin, smooth spine decorated with flowers. Composed just after the defeat of the Franco-Prussian War and its political upheavals, the album brings together caricatures of the main French and Prussian protagonists (Thiers, Jules Favre, General Vinoy, the Comte de Paris, Trochu, Changarnier, Prince Jérôme Napoléon, Pierre Bonaparte, Guillaume I, Bismarck, Emile Ollivier, etc.).