Le Docteur Festus
Publisher: Librairie d'Ab'm Cherbuliez et Ce ...; Lith. de Schmidt Cie.
Published: 1840
Place of publication: Paris; Genève
Language: fre
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Caricatures and cartoons -- Switzerland.; Caricatures and cartoons -- France.; Swiss wit and humor, Pictorial.; French wit and humor, Pictorial.; France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Caricatures and cartoons.; Switzerland -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Genres: Caricatures and cartoons.
Other titles: Les voyages et aventures du Docteur Festus :; Dans ce cahier sont représentés au naturel les Voyages et aventures du Docteur Festus
Notes: BN vol. 191, col. 602-603
Rodolphe Töpffer (preface by F. Caradec) preface and p. 171-215
Töpffer (ed. by Lucien Boissonnas et al.) Chronologie, p. 7-8
Cover title.
Title from BN; cover title and publication information from Rodolphe Töpffer (preface by François Caradec), Paris, 1975.
Statement about lithographer from added t.p.
Töpffer created Le Docteur Festus in 1829 but did not publish it until 1840. Cf. Töpffer (Lucien Boissonnas et al.), "Chronologie," p. 7-8, and Rodolphe Töpffer (preface by F. Caradec), "Bibliographie des albums de R. Töpffer," p. [10].
"Carte pour servir à l'intelligence des Voyages et aventures du Docteur Festus," p. 88. Map shows kingdoms of Rondeterre, Ginvernais and Vireloup.
LC copy lacks cover-title. Has handwritten English translations of French captions on p. 2-14. Acquired by the Library of Congress in 1892.