Rare edition with 17 original lithographs with signed assignment of this French court painter

Jean-Baptiste Isabey - Divers Essais Lithographiques de J. B. Isabey, publiés à Paris en 1818 par G. Engelmann. cardboard band - 35 x 25 cm.
With a hand-written assignment by Isabey: "À Le Gros de la part de son Maitre et Ami Isabey" (Le Gros was a pupil of Isabey).

In good condition. Edges of the book binding were scraped. Some lithographs are slightly rusty.

Very rare.

Shipping by registered and insured post.

Contains 17 lithographs, one-sided lithograph on heavy paper by G. Engelmann.
Twelve of them have Isabey's individual embossed stamp with initials J.I.
Three lithographs, signed in the stone

Jean-Baptiste Isabey (Nancy, 11 April 1767 - Paris, 18 April 1855) was a French portrait artist and miniaturist. He is also called "Le peintre des rois". He was one of the masters of the genre of miniatures and had great success in the time of Napoleon I and on the Congress of Vienna in 1814/1815.
Joséphine de Beauharnais and Napoleon Bonaparte were his next patrons. Louis Philippe was his next patron. Napoleon III made him a Commander of the Légion d'Honneur. (Source: Wikipedia)
He also experimented as one of the first French artists with lithography. This series of lithographs is one of his earliest examples (see Benezit V, p. 730).