Gil Blas

First edition.
Half brown cloth binding, marbled paper boards, corners slightly bumped, edges scuffed, headcap torn. Contemporary binding.
Each issue retains its four pages, some light marginal tears not touching the text, as well as some creases.
Contributions by Marcel Prévost ("Cousine Laura", "Grace!", "Au cabaret", "L'Abbé Pantalon", "Maxime"), Aristide Bruant (numerous songs), Georges Courteline ("Margot", "26", "Boubouroche", "La Pendule", "Exempt de cravate", "Je m'en fous", "Un mal de gorge", "Ferme ta malle !", "Premières armes", "L'Honneur des Brossarbourg", "Le Mauvais cocher", "Suggestion"), Jean Richepin (numerous poems, as well as prose texts: "Ch'tiote", "La Ca

First edition.
Half beige cloth binding, marbled paper boards, corners slightly bumped, leading edges scuffed. Contemporary binding.
Each issue contains its full four pages, some light marginal tears not touching text.
Contributions by Willy [Ernest Willy], Edmond Char, Jules Lévy, Tristan Bernard, Maurice Leblanc and J.-H. Rosny ("Le Baiser de la Reine") notably; drawings by Sandy-Hook, Jacques Villon, Steinlen, Weiluc, Moriss, Georges Redon, Gottlob, Prejelan among others.
Journal illustrated with numerous drawings in color and black and white, sometimes full-page, as well as musical scores.
Gil Blas was a former French weekly newspaper, founded by Auguste Dumont,

First edition.
Half brown sheep binding, marbled paper boards, corners slightly bumped, leading edges scuffed, lacks to boards and spine torn. Contemporary binding.
Each issue contains its full four pages, some light marginal tears not touching text, as well as creases.
Contributions by Anatole France ("La Messe des ombres"), Charles Baudelaire (posthumous publication of "La mort des pauvres", "La Corde", "Ciel brouillé", "Chanson d'après-midi"), Georges Courteline, Jules Renard ("Poil de Carotte"), Marcel Prévost ("L'Abbé Pantalon", "Torchonnette", "Jeunes époux"), Edmond and Jules de Goncourt ("Le Passeur de Maguelone", "Le Père Thibaut"), Aristide Bruant ("Fins de siècle",

First edition.
Contemporary half dark red shagreen, spine in six compartments with gilt fleurons (scratched, corners bumped), marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns. Each issue of eight pages has a large color illustration on the first and last pages (a song with musical notation).
Contributions by Paul Adam, Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly, Stéphane Mallarmé, Alphonse Allais, Paul Arène, Baudelaire, Jules Bois, Georges Clémenceau, Courteline, Alphonse Daudet, Lucien Descaves, Gyp, Maurice Leblanc, Jean Lorrain, Guy de Maupassant, René Maizeroy, Catulle Mendès, Edgar Quinet, Jules Renard, Jean Richepin, Albert Samain, Marcel Schwob, Paul Verlaine, Emile Zola, and others.
Illustrated