George AURIOL

The rare first edition with no mention of deluxe copies, with statement of second edition.
Bradel binding in half cardboard vellum-style, smooth spine, marbled paper boards, marginally reinforced original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Covers illustrated by Georges Auriol.

First edition, one of the rare copies on laid paper.
The issue consists of 4 pages and is illustrated with a double-page interior drawing by Adolphe Willette "C'est un conte blanc - C'est un conte noir".
Literary contributions by Georges Auriol, Rodolphe Salis, Xernand Fau, Adolphe Willette...
Handsome copy.
Le Chat noir is a weekly review created by Rodolphe Salis and Emile Goudeau, published from 1882 to 1897, with the aim of promoting the famous cabaret of the same name whose memory it sought to preserve. The texts declaimed during performances were published there. It constitutes, moreover, an important literary and artistic testimony of the late nineteenth century, centered around bohemian life and the Parisian effervescence that characterized it.

First edition.
This issue consists of 4 pages and is illustrated with a full-page comic strip by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen "Le chat et la grenouille" ["The cat and the frog"].
Literary contributions by Georges Auriol "Fleur d'orange" ["Orange blossom"], Rodolphe Salis, Léo Niversac "Bulletin du Chat Noir" ["Chat Noir bulletin"], Jules Jouy...
A few minor marginal tears of no consequence.
Le Chat noir was a weekly magazine created by Rodolphe Salis and Emile Goudeau, published from 1882 to 1897, with the aim of promoting the famous cabaret of the same name, of which it served as the memory. It published texts recited during the shows. It is, moreover, an important literary and artistic testimony of the end of the 19th century, centered around the bohemian lifestyle and the Parisian effervescence that characterized it.

First edition of these Christmas carols set to music by Georges Fragerolle.
Publisher's full white paper boards binding, smooth spine, front cover illustrated with a large decoration representing the Nativity, endpapers and pastedowns of floral-patterned paper.
Work decorated with Art Nouveau illustrations and ornamentations by George Auriol.
Gift inscription in pen on the page facing the half-title page.
Handsome copy complete with its very fragile illustrated dust jacket.

First edition illustrated with drawings by André Hellé.
Boards slightly and marginally sunned, otherwise a handsome and rare copy.
Precious signed autograph inscription from George Auriol: "De tout coeur à Willette ancien gonfalonier de Rochechouart son vieil ami George Auriol." ["Wholeheartedly to Willette former standard-bearer of Rochechouart his old friend George Auriol."]

First edition of Les Hommes d'aujo­urd'hui (33 issues lacking out of 469). Five volumes bound in light blue half-cloth, smooth spines, blue morocco ti­tle labels decorated with double filets, marbled paper boards (4 volumes). The color title pages have been preserved and bound in. Marginal tears without damage to the text (no. 163; no. 165; no. 184, p. 2). Mar­ginal restorations without damage to text on 8 leaves be­tween nos. 214 and 223. Two leaves of no. 224 backed. Mar­ginal tear with some paper missing (no. 345, p.1). Format of quires in the first vol­ume varies; some are trimmed more than others.
First edition of Les Femmes du jour, very rare complete collection in 11 issues published between 1886 and 1892 (the last very rare Réjane issue appeared in 1892, six years after the other 10). Bound in half red cloth, smooth spine, mid­night-blue morocco title labels framed in gilt, gilt title length­wise, marbled paper boards.

An impressive gal­lery of prominent 19th century women and men carica­tured and described by the foremost avant-garde artists and writers of the time.

Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui - An almost complete collection from n°1 to n°416
Léon Vanier, Paris n.d. (1878-1898), 19.5 x 28.5 cm, 8 bound volumes
The first edition of this rare collection, almost complete and comprising 416 issues of four pages, each illustrated with a color caricature and sometimes illustrations to text. A ninth volume appeared in 1899.
Contemporary half red shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments, titles and volume numbers in gold, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, title page preserved in each volume.
Spines uniformly faded, a little spotting and occasional browning. No. 136 slightly shaved by binder and first page of No. 74 restored with adhesive. One internal tear not touching text to volume 2.
Manuscript ex-libris and embossed stamp to half-titles.
With the color title pages preserved and bound in.
An impressive gallery of the figures of the age caricatured and described by the foremost avant-garde artists and writers of the era.
Established by the writer Félicien Champsaur and the illustrator André Gill in 1878, this exceptional literary and satirical review was taken over by Léon Vanier - the publisher of the Parnassiens - from 1885 before closing down in 1899. Each issue was dedicated to a figure of the time in the world of arts and letters, or more rarely, of politics, science, or technology.
The full set thus comprises 469 monographs from some of the most alternative voices of the era: Jules Laforgue, Gustave Kahn, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Jean Moréas, Félix Fénéon and even Paul Verlaine, the only one Vanier paid, in order to help him out. Each issue included on the front page a large and fine lithographed caricature in color by artists such as Manuel Luque, André Gill and Félix Régamey, but also painters who went on to attain legendary status: Toulouse-Lautrec, Steinlen, Pissarro, Seurat, Signac, and others.
The issues devoted to literature cover all the literary schools of the second half of the 19th century, including the Buveurs d'eau, the Vilains bonshommes, the Hydropathes, the Parnassiens, the Naturalists, the Decadents, the Symbolists and the Incohérents. An important place is also accorded to painters with broader horizons: the Pont Aven school (Schuffenecker, Pissarro, Emile Bernard, Maximilien Luce), the Affichistes (Chéret, Willette, Caran d'Ache, Georges Auriol, Job, Steinlen), the Post-Impressionnists (Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Anquetin), the Pointillists (Signac, Seurat), and Symbolists (Redon). Musicians are also not lacking, with drawings of Gounot, Massenet, Verdi, Camille Saint Saëns, Rubinstein and Reyer.
An exceptional gallery of portraits bearing witness to the free spirit and cheekiness of the French intellectual underground.

Complete collection in volume of the magazine L'image, published between 1896 and 1897. 12 issues published, well complete of its copy number, enriched by an exceptional autograph dedication of the author of the directors of publication Tony Beltrand, Auguste Lepère, Leon Ruffe, Jules Rais , to Monsieur Floury, the publisher of the magazine. Personal copy of the editor of the magazine, Henri Floury (handwritten in pencil repeated several times in the lower margin of the inset "QUOTE THE MENTION").
Well complete covers illustrated at the end of the volume, made by masters of the time (Toulouse-Lautrec, Alfons Mucha).
(LUXURY EDITION TAKEN 100 EXAMPLES ON CHINA containing a separate print on China of all the engravings and smokes of all the plates before the text, one of the 12 copies on China of the number-copy ???)