Two Incredibly Scarce Gavarni Albums Bound Together A Total of Forty-Three Marvelous Hand-Colored Lithographs GAVARNI [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier]. Paris le Matin. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1838-1839. [bound with] La Boite aux Lettres. Paris: Caboche Gregoire / Chez Aubert, 1839. First editions. Folio (13 1/8 x 9 5/8 in; 334 x 245 mm). Paris le Matin with twelve, and La Boite aux Lettres with thirty-one (of thirty-four) hand-colored lithographed plates; a total of forty-three plates, most heightened with gum arabic. Bound to contemporary French style, c. 1920, in quarter black morocco over marbled boards. Smooth spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. A very fine copy of two extremely scarce Gavarni albums. ABPC Index, 1923-present, records no copies of Paris le Matin at auction within the last eighty-eight years. Only one copy of La Boite ux Lettres has come to auction within the last thirty-six years and it contained only fo