BERGERET (Gaston). Diary of a Negro at the 1900... Lot 454

BERGERET (Gaston). Diary of a Negro at the 1900 Exhibition, Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, L. Carteret et Cie, 1901. - Small in-8, 188 x 130 : (2 ff.), 63 ff. illustrated cover. Bronze cloth bradel, smooth spine, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Ad. Lavaux). First edition of this "travel diary or fictional guide to the 1900 Universal Exhibition", by the writer Gaston Bergeret (1840-1921). It is illustrated with 79 humorous colour compositions in the text by Henry Somm (1844-1907). The edition was limited to 400 copies; this is one of the first 100 numbered on japon (n° 71). COPY WITH TWO ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY HENRY SOMM. The first one, in watercolour and signed, represents the bust portraits of a woman and a man; the second is a humorous drawing in Indian ink, unsigned. A perfectly preserved copy.