Auguste ROUBILLE (1872-1955) illustrateur. Lot n° 13

L. A. S., January 21, 1908, 9 original graphite drawings (2 signed) and 4 lithographed plates, [1908]; 1 autograph page in-8, drawings on sheets in-4 and color plates in-8 mounted on album sheets in-fol., the plates with date stamps of the Distillerie de la Bénédictine. Advertisements for the Benedictine liqueur. Letter of sending to M. Gaultier of the "Benedictine sketches", asking to take into account, "for judging them, the lack of colours and flatness". The sketches represent various characters with a bottle of "Benedictine" liqueur; some have been translated into advertising lithographs: a hotel hunter, a lady jockey, a barman and an old man in his library. At the head, an engraved portrait of Roubille.