Rare 1870s Handcolored Cartoons 1/2

Exceedingly rare set of 30 broadside comic pages from the 1860s-80s. Numbered 1-30. (Next lot in the sale includes 31-60.) Each measures about 15-3/4" x 11-3/4". Printed and hand coloured in France expressly for the Humoristic Publishing Company of Kansas City, Missouri by Jean-Charles Pellerin's Imagerie d'Epinal printing house. These historically-important graphics presage the format used by Hal Foster in his Prince Valiant strips by some fifty years, and are clear forerunners of the modern day comic book.

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