[Rodolphe Töpffer] - Histoire de M. Cryptogame. Par l'auteur de M. Jabot, de M. Crépin, du docteur Festus, etc., etc., etc.

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[Rodolphe Töpffer] - Histoire de M. Cryptogame. Par l'auteur de M. Jabot, de M. Crépin, du docteur Festus, etc., etc., etc. - Rotterdam / Anvers - Ad. Donker - 1946 - 1st edition (thus) - [72] pp - Hardcover with dust jacket - 29,5 x 17 cm. (Oblong).

Condition: Good - COMPLETE with the dust jacket (with wear, discoloration, foxing, and small tears at the edges).

Photomechanical reprint of the first edition (from 1846) of the adventures of Monsieur Cryptogame by the Swiss cartoonist Rodolphe Töpffer (1799-1846). Illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of the wood engravings. Cf. Tot volle waschdom p. 59; Matla PRIKK.

This comic strip (considered the FIRST COMIC) first appeared as a serial in the magazine L'Illustration in 1845. Translations into English and German quickly followed. In 1858, J.J.A. Goeverneur provided the first Dutch version ('Reizen en avonturen van mijnheer Prikkebeen').

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