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Gros & Delettrez
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[CARICATURES and DRAWINGS].
See original version (French)
160
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[CARICATURES and DRAWINGS].
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
[CARICATURES and DRAWINGS].
LOT of
-ZOLA. LEBOURGEOIS.
The Works of Zola.
Paris, E. Bernard & Cie, 1898.
Large 8vo, modern marbled cardboard binding.
Two series of 16 colour ‘watercolour-style’ plates illustrating Zola’s novels by Henri Lebourgeois. Some of these caricatures allude to the Dreyfus Affair and are anti-Semitic.
-WILLY.
Eating Hay. Memoirs.
WILLY square 8vo paperback with a dedicatory inscription on the title page from Henry-Parville
Several black-and-white drawings. Limited edition. Spine chipped at the top; cover slightly soiled.
-AROUET. A Journey into the Absurd.
Square 16vo paperback.
-SENNEP.
20 Fables by La Fontaine.
Librairie de France
Folio, paperback with colour-illustrated cover.
Limited edition, no. 872.
Caricatures on large plates.
-SISS.
La Bourse. Chantelune. Loose sheets in a slightly soiled flap-covered slipcase; large in-4 in black.
Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné.
Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller with a passion for bookbinding, a flautist and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and Academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were mainly staged in the Paris region.
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