Benjamin RABIER, CARAN D'ACHE
L'album. Les maîtres de la caricature
Jules Tallandier|Paris 1902|25.50 x 32 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition illustrated with numerous unpublished drawings in black and in color by Albert Guillaume, Ferdinand Bac, Albert Robida, Lucien Métivet, Jean-Louis Forain, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, Job, Charles Léandre, Hermann Paul, Benjamin Rabier, Charles Huard, Henry Gerbault, Abel Faivre, Paul Balluriau...
Publisher’s decorated binding in full cloth, smooth spine decorated with a green floral motif, bevelled boards, the upper cover illustrated by Lucien Métivet showing the masked faces of most of the illustrators of this volume and, above them, a society lady manipulating these caricatures with strings like puppets, endpapers and pastedowns of blue paper slightly discoloured at the margins, gilt edges at head, illustrated wrappers preserved, binding signed Engel.
Preface by Léon Roger-Milès.
A very rare copy preserved in its magnificent decorated publisher’s binding.
Publisher’s decorated binding in full cloth, smooth spine decorated with a green floral motif, bevelled boards, the upper cover illustrated by Lucien Métivet showing the masked faces of most of the illustrators of this volume and, above them, a society lady manipulating these caricatures with strings like puppets, endpapers and pastedowns of blue paper slightly discoloured at the margins, gilt edges at head, illustrated wrappers preserved, binding signed Engel.
Preface by Léon Roger-Milès.
A very rare copy preserved in its magnificent decorated publisher’s binding.
€2,300