LORENTZ Alcide-Joseph. Fiasque mêlée d'allégories. Illustre d'illustrres illustralisés, illustrée par un illustrissime illustrateur inillustre. Paris, Auguste, élève de Lambert éditeur, 1840; 2 parts in 1 vol. large in-8 of [4]-72-[2]-75 pp. half red morocco with corners, gilt fillet, spine ribbed decorated, untrimmed (Champs). Extremely rare first edition of this collection of 147 caricatures by Lorenz lithographed by the Rigo brothers. Some of the drawings, with several scenes per page, prefigured the comic strip. Ex-libris Paul Gavault (Cat., 1913, 1st part, n° 403).