[RACISM; ÉPINAL PRINT] The black man

A$40 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Kansas City, Missouri : Humoristic Publishing Co., [1893-94]. No. 7. Épinal print, single sheet, folio (400 x 295 mm), chromoithographed, lower margin imprinted Imagerie d Epinal. Pellerin, imp.-édit. Printed expressly for the Humoristic Publishing Co., Kansas City, Mo. ; original horizontal fold, 8.5 cm tear at upper right corner affecting the fourth illustrated panel, a few small tears to the edges of the sheet, the paper with mild toning, otherwise a clean copy. At the close of the eighteenth century the French publisher Jean-Charles Pellerin was the originator of the so-called image d Epinal , a popular print issued in the style of a broadsheet which took its name from Pellerin s hometown in the Vosges region of France. The Pellerin publishing house continued to issue these prints throughout the nineteenth century, initially as wood engravings and later as lithographs, in the main individually but sometimes in bound portfolios. These commercially highly successful prints dealt with topical, humourous, moral and religious themes. The image d Epinal was, in a very real sense, the precursor to the modern comic. During 1893-94 the Humoristic Publishing Co. of Kansas City issued a series of sixty Pellerin images d Epinal which had originally been popular in France in the 1850s, but for the first time these prints appeared with captions in English. The print offered here is number seven in this series, and tells the tale of a young girl from a wealthy family who is terrified by

• Binding: Hardcover

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