Adolphe Léon WILLETTE

Edition illustrated with 35 original compositions by Auguste Rodin, Eugène Carrière, Adolphe Willette, Daniel Vierge, Louis Dunki and Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, one of 10 numbered copies on China.
A pleasant copy.
Binding in full, long-grain, red morocco, spine decorated with triple gilt fillets and black typographical motifs, gilt roll tooling on the spine-ends, frame of quadruple gilt fillets adorned with gilt and black fleurons in the corner pieces of the boards, marbled endpapers, frame of gilt lace tooling on the pastedown endpapers, covers and spine preserved, gilt fillets on the leading edges, top edge gilt.
A very beautiful, perfectly set, copy of this work...

First edition published in a small number of copies of this poem by Rodolphe Darzens set to music by Auguste Chapuis, one of the rare copies on Japan paper.
Work illustrated with 10 original lithographs by Adolphe Willette.
Full flexible grey cloth Bradel binding, smooth spine decorated with central gilt fleuron, gilt date at foot, slight rubbing to joints without gravity, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
On the half-title page, Rodolphe Darzens has transcribed the poem "Clair de lune", the tenth and final poem of this collection.

First edition on ordinary paper for each volume.
Half-red sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with triple gilt fillets, pebbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, color illustrated covers by Adolphe Willette and Auguste Roedel preserved, speckled edges.
Poetry by Emile Goudeau, George Auriol, Léon Durocher, Prosper Marius, Victor Meusy, Albert Tinchant, Maurice Vaucaire for the first volume; poetry by Henri Bernard, Maurice Boukay, Théodore Botrel, René Dubreuil, Emile Goudeau, Victor Meusy and Raoul Gineste for the second.
Work illustrated with 17 original lithographs hors-texte by Adolphe Willette for the first volume, and 15 original lithographs by Auguste...

First edition.
This issue consists of 4 pages and is illustrated with a comic strip by Adolphe Willette: "C'est demain vendredi saint".
Literary contributions by Emile Goudeau "Bulletin politique du Chat Noir", Jean Lorrain "Lunaire", Jean Moréas "Viandes de gargote"...
Handsome copy despite a small hole, not touching the text, at the level of the interior fold of the newspaper.
Le Chat noir is 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. The texts recited during the shows were published there. It is, moreover, an important...

First edition.
This issue comprises 4 pages and is illustrated with a drawing by Adolphe Willette.
Literary contributions by Emile Goudeau "L'avenir est aux louches", Constant Chanouard "Grisel l'ouverrier", Charles Pitou, Léo Trezenik "Un ivrogne", Paul Arène "Mistral parisien", Edmond Haraucourt "Brune"...
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, serving as its memory. It published texts recited during performances. It is, moreover, an important literary and artistic testimony of the late nineteenth century, centered around...

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...

First edition, one of the rare copies on laid paper.
The issue consists of 4 pages and is illustrated with a comic strip by Adolphe Willette on an interior page: "Monstres de Paris. Les peintres incompris : M. Carolus Durand".
Literary contributions by Alphonse Allais "Moeurs de ce temps-ci", Georges d'Esparbès "Les juges", Jean Lorrain "Miss Miser", Camille de Sainte-Croix "La chanson de la mer de Victor Margueritte" under the semi-pseudonym of Xernand Fau "La guerre aux abus"...
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...

First edition, one of the rare copies printed on laid paper.
The issue consists of 4 pages and is illustrated with a comic strip by Adolphe Willette: "John Bull au Congo".
Literary contributions by Albert Samain "Tsilla", Georges Auriol "Les neiges de Bretagne", Maurice Montégut "Les confidences de l'abîme"...
Handsome copy.
Le Chat noir is a weekly magazine created by Rodolphe Salis and Emile Goudeau, published from 1882 to 1897, with the purpose of promoting the famous cabaret of the same name, of which it serves as a record. It published the texts recited during the performances. It is, moreover, an important literary and artistic testimony of the end of the 19th...

First edition of this complete 1883 year containing 50 issues in original wrappers under blue temporary covers.
Spine split with angular lacks to the covers.
Each issue consists of four pages.
Texts by Emile Goudeau, Alphonse Allais, Jean Richepin and Paul Verlaine ("Le Chat noir", "Langueur", "La Princesse Bérénice", "Pantoum négligé", "Paysage", "Conseil falot", "L'Aube à l'envers", "Un pouacre", "Madrigal") notably.
Drawings by Willette, Rodolphe Salis, Henri de Sta, Tiret-Bognet, Henri Pille, Caran d'Ache etc.
Le Chat noir is a weekly magazine created by Rodolphe Salis and Emile Goudeau, published from 1882 to 1897, with the aim of promoting the famous cabaret of...

First edition printed with 200 copies on vellum, illustrated with a frontispiece and 12 colour intaglio engraved plates by Willette, printed in bistre in the text and in colour for the insets by Vigna-Vigneron, comprising the frontispiece in 7 versions including 4 for the decomposition of the colour and 12 insets in 2 versions, that is black and white and colour.

Bound in pale pink suede, spine in two false compartments, multicoloured patchwork garland glued to the boards, comb-patterned endpapers, shimmering covers and spine preserved, all leaves have been mounted on guards, brown cloth slipcase, binding signed D. M. and dated 2015.

"Belle publication côtée, une des...

Complete collection of 24 issues and 18 fascicules of this literary review animated by numerous poets.
Contributions by Paul Fort, Léon Vérane, Paul Jamot, Gaston Foubert, Germaine Lepage, René Duart, René Maublanc, Mercutio, Roger Vailland, Vincent Muselli, Georges Delaw, Touny-Léris, Paul Neveux, Max Buffenoir, Adolphe Willette, A.M. Gossez, Marcel Sézanne, Emile Sedeyn, Roger Lecomte, Théotime...
Illustrations by Georges Delaw, Auguste Lepère, André-Edouard Marty, Adolphe Willette, Léon Bellot, Maurice Louvet, Edmond Chauvet, Eugène Bourgouin, Robert Coutin, Claude Renard, Pierre Subtil, Denise Hubrecht-Petitjean,
Handsome and rare complete set including issue N°10-11...

Rare original lithograph, executed by Adolphe Willette for L'Estampe Moderne after the drawing exhibited at the Luxembourg Museum, series number 24 published in April 1899.
One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on Japan paper with wide margins, laid paper mounted on Japan paper, artist's signature in the plate, publisher's dry stamp representing a child's profile in the lower margin, numbered stamp of the deluxe printing on verso; engraving preceded by a tissue guard captioned with the artist's name, title, and text.
Lithograph inspired by a poem extracted from the collection Chatîments by Victor Hugo, reproduced on the print's tissue guard.
Magnificent...

First edition, one of 12 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies.
A full-margined copy.
Spine creased, a small lack to head of second board, light tears to margins of certain leaves at the deckled edges.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece on Japan paper by Charles Léandre and drawings in and out of text by Henri Gaston Darien, Henri Charles Auguste Gounin, Jean-Louis Fernand Fau, Charles Léandre, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, David Ossipovitch Widhopff and Adolphe Willette.

Extremely rare and humoristic menu pamphlet from the “souper démocratique” “democratic supper” organised by the République de Montmartre, newly founded in 1921. The date shown is a parody of the republican calendar: "17 Neigeôse, An I".
A magnificent original wood engraving, representing the Communards on the Montmartre hill and bearing the monogram “Armand,” adorns the first board.
In the spirit of the Paris Commune, the République de Montmartre was created in the early 1920s by the Parisian artists Joé Bridge, Adolphe Willette, Jean-Louis Forain, Francisque Poulbot, Maurice Neumont, Louis Morin, Maurice Millière, Raoul Guérin and Jules Depaquit. Their parties and banquets, often...

Very rare prospectus for the banquet of the Republic of Montmartre, organized at the Moulin de la Galette on November 6, 1931.
In the upper part, there is a beautiful original print signed Francisque Poulbot representing the citizens of the Republic of Montmartre returning from vacation.
In the spirit of the Paris Commune, the Republic of Montmartre was created in 1921 by Parisian artists Joé Bridge, Adolphe Willette, Jean-Louis Forain, Francisque Poulbot, Maurice Neumont, Louis Morin, Maurice Milliere, Raoul Guerin and Jules Depaquit . His parties and banquets, often organized in the mythical places of Montmartre (Moulin de la Galette, Circus Medrano, Moulin...

WILLETTE, Adolphe & OTHERS
Le Pierrot
Paris 1888 and 1889, 29 x 40 cm, unbound.
First edition.
An almost complete set of this rare satirical literary journal headed and illustrated by Adolphe Willette.
49 issues from 6 July 1888 to 20 September 1889, each comprising two folio leaves, the first page with a lithograph by Willette, some with caricatures on page three.
With Emile Goudeau as its editor-in-chief, this journal, nominally published on Fridays (though not always actually published then) includes poetry, ads, and news in brief, but its real value lies in the illustrations, done exclusively for it by Willette.
A little light foxing and small tears to margin not...

First edition, one of the rare copies on laid paper.
The issue is illustrated with a drawing by Adolphe Willette "Il est né le divin enfant ! ".
Other contributions by Alphonse Allais "Le veau", Rodolphe Salis, Auguste Marin...
Handsome copy.
Le Chat noir is 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 whose memory it sought to preserve. It published the texts declaimed during the shows. It is, moreover, an important literary and artistic testimony of the end of the 19th century, around the bohemian life and the Parisian effervescence that was its own.

First edition, one of 25 copies numbered and justified by the publisher on japon paper, the only printing along with 25 on china paper.
Our copy was mistakenly identified by the publisher as belonging to the china issue.
Bradel binding in half burgundy cloth, smooth spine, black shagreen title label, pebble-grained paper boards, illustrated colour covers by Adolphe Willette preserved, slightly later binding signed Champs.
Poems by Henri Bernard, Maurice Boukay, Georges d'Esparbès, Louis Marsolleau, Roger-Milès, Maurice Vaucaire, Gabriel Vicaire, and others.
Illustrated with 17 original lithographs by Adolphe Willette, here in double state as in the deluxe...

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...

Rarissime and humorous flyer menu of the "democratic dinner" organized by the Republic of Montmartre newly founded in 1921. The date indicated is a parody of the Republican calendar: "17 Neigôse, An I".
A magnificent original engraving on wood, representing the communards on the hill Montmartre and bearing the monogram "Armand", adorns the first board.
In the spirit of the Paris Commune, the Republic of Montmartre was created in the early 1920s by Parisian artists Joé Bridge, Adolphe Willette, Jean-Louis Forain, Francisque Poulbot, Maurice Neumont, Louis Morin, Maurice Milliere, Raoul Guerin and Jules Depaquit. His parties and banquets, often organized in the...

first edition.
Binding pine green half morocco with corners, evenly spent smooth back with a gold decorated with floral motifs cartrouche e (t of pellets mosaiced brown morocco, gilt tail date coaching gilded nets on marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, gilded head, preserved covers, bookplate pasted on a contreplat, the time of Charles Lanoë signed binding.
Bel autograph signed Georges Esparbès: "In March Chief Oscar Méténier to the writer, the friend, his subordinate, Corporal G. Esparbès."
Illustrated by Adolphe Willette coverage.

Edition printed 62 copies hors commerce.
autograph dedication of the author autograph dated and signed by the author Henry Fevre: "... this book" for fun "..."
Illustrated book three unpublished drawings by Adolphe Willette and autograph facsimile Rodolphe Darzens.
Some small and marginal gaps on the boards.
Rare.

First collected edition, one of the numbered copies printed on hand press.
Bradel binding in half indigo boards, smooth spine faded, bronze sheep title-label, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, illustrated original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Work illustrated with 100 drawings by the author.

First edition.
Work decorated with numerous in-text illustrations as well as 31 plates, 15 of which are in color.
Spine marginally faded with some losses at one weakened joint, handsome interior condition.