Aristide BRUANT

First edition of each of the four volumes, one of 50 copies (for the first and third works) or one of 150 copies (for the second and fourth) printed on Japan paper, the only deluxe issue.
Bradel bindings in citron half morocco with corners, smooth spines slightly darkened, marbled paper boards, pebble-grained endpapers and pastedowns, covers and backstrips preserved in one piece, contemporary bindings signed Champs.
Covers and in-text or full-page drawings by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen for the first and second volumes, by Francisque Poulbot for the third, and by Louis Borgex for the fourth and final volume.
Each volume bears Aristide Bruant’s autograph signature...

Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
Aristide Bruant – Original print from
Le Café-Concert
L'Estampe originale | Paris 1893 | 31.5 x 43 cm | one leaf
Original print by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec from the Le Café-Concert series, published by Publications de l'Estampe Originale. Very rare and beautiful lithograph forming part of 500 original proofs printed on vellum by Edouard Ancourt's printing house.
A few angular lacks.
Portrait by Toulouse-Lautrec of Aristide Bruant, a huge figure in the Belle Epoque music-hall and close friend of the artist, to whom he ordered cabaret posters that remain well-known. Singer, actor, and performer, he acquired his fame at...

first edition.
Half-basal caramel binder, back with four nerves decorated with golden fleurons, traces of rubbing on the back, marbled paper plates, guards and paper counter to the vat, Contemporary binding.
Autographed autograph dedication of the author of Aristide Bruant: "For my dear brother Goron, Paris the year I of the XXème century."
Illustrated book of engravings.
Some foxing.

New edition, mention thousand.
Binding half
Signed autograph Aristide Bunting Raymond Chailley.
Book illustrated in drawings and Inserts Steinlen.

BRUANT Aristide
illustrated by STEINLEN Théophile Alexandre
Dans la rue. Chansons et monologues. Volume 1 [The Street]
Paris n. d. (c. 1895), 12,5 x 19 cm, half black morocco
The definitive edition, one of 150 copies on Japan paper numbered and justified by Aristide Bruant, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Half black morocco over moiré-effect paper by P. Goy & C. Vilaine, spine in six compartments, black endpapers and pastedowns, illustrated wrappers by T. A. Steinlen preserved, top edge gilt.
Autograph inscription signed by Aristide Bruant: “à notre ami Goron [To our friend Goron],” supplemented by an...

The definitive edition.
Contemporary red half shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine with triple gilt fillets, very light scratching to spine, edges of covers rubbed, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Signed and dated autograph inscription from Aristide Bruant to the singer (Mathilde) Tarquini d'Or, who – almost ten years later – was to become his wife.
With illustrations by Steinlen.
Paper yellowed and delicate at margins.

Final edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Japan, the only major paper.
Binding half ...
Signed autograph Aristide Sparrow A. Arnault enriched autograph sixain: "Ya chouett's people / What monies / And the belly; / Ya no rabbits / Ya qu'des nobs / On Mad'leine. "
Our copy is enriched with a beautiful original watercolor signed by Théophile Steinlen representative Parisian life Grands Boulevards in the background with the Madeleine.
Nice copy pleasantly established.

The definitive edition, one of 150 copies numbered and justified by Aristide Bruant on Japan paper, the only large paper copies.
Autograph inscription signed from Aristide Bruant to A. Arnault.
This copy is enriched with a charming original watercolor signed by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen showing a couple of street urchins carving Steinlen’s name on a wall.
With drawings by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, including the cover.
A very good copy, spine slightly wrinkled as usual.

Final Edition, a thousand words.
Binding half morocco chocolate, back with five nerves decorated with the golden initials repeated five times of great bibliophile Roger Cormenin, marbled paper plates, paper contreplats guards and the tank covers illustrated by Steinlen TA preserved, gilded head, elegant binding the unsigned time.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed and dated Montmartre Aristide Sparrow Roger Cormenin: "... For the Viscount ..."
Book, illustrated with numerous drawings in the text of Théophile Alexandre Steinlen.
Provenance: the library Cormenin Roger, son of Louis de Cormenin who was the confidant and secretary of...