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DAUMIER, Honoré -- Philadelphe Maurice ALHOY & Louis HART. Les Cent et un Robert-Macaire, composée et dessinés par M.H. Daumier, sur les idées et les légendes de M. Ch. Philipon ... texte par MM. Maurice Alhoy et Louis Hart . Paris: Aubert et Cie, 1839. 2 parts in one volume. 4° (275 x 220mm). Half-titles. Wood-engraved frontispiece to to each part and 101 lithographed plates after Daumier with captions by Philipon beneath and continuation of letterpress text on versos. 2-page catalogue of Aubert publications bound in in duplicate. (Plates 41, 43, 53, 58, 60, 71, and several others rather heavily spotted, some margins a little soiled and frayed, plate 83 with short, repaired tears at outer margin, some spotting of text.) Later brown half morocco over marbled boards with black morocco lettering-piece, partly uncut. A reduction of the 100 lithographs by Daumier which Aubert issued in 1836-38. Beraldi V, p. 124; Carteret III, p. 187; Hazard-Delteil 989-1090; Ray French 162; Vicaire I, 31