Hermann-Paul ; Steinlen, Théophile-Alexandre ;... Lot n° 340

L'Assiette au beurre. Paris Schwarz 1901-1912 572 num. in-4° (n.c., browned paper, tears, unclipped copies...). Various bindings: 14 vols. in green half-percaline with corners, green-patterned paper boards, smooth spines with brown leather etiquette, covers and spines cons. (stains, wear to spines and boards, corners slightly dulled, covers slightly rubbed), 19 vols. in paperback with waffle composition (some wear), 112 vols. in paperback with covers illustrated in color or black (wear). Almost complete series of the satirical magazine "L'Assiette au beurre" from no. 1 to no. 566 (missing no. 546, 557 and 561), plus no. 582 and 587 and no. 329 in duplicate. Particularities of our ex. with qqs ff. of advertising for derivative products (postcards, original drawings), - no. 7bis on alcohol, - complete with the 3 folding plates in no. 37, - with the special issues "Les falsificateurs de lait" (after no. 46), "Madame la Baronne et sa famille" and "La foire aux croûtes" (after no. 59, ill. by Iribe and Umberto Brunelleschi under the pseud. Aroun al Rachid), - 2 supplements "Les masques de l'Assiette au beurre" in issue no. 256. In all, the collection comprises 572 issues covering the years 1901 to 1912, the last year of the magazine's first phase of publication, which ended with n° 594, before resuming in 1921 and ending definitively in 1936. "L'Assiette au beurre" is a magazine that calls itself "the most artistic of political magazines", thanks to the visual quality of its publications, the result of collaboration with the greatest caricaturists of the time, such as Steinlen, Van Dongen, Jacques Villon, Vallotton, Hermann-Paul, Léal de Camara, Roubille, Willette and others. Ref. A.-M. Bouchard, pp. 13-26 (https://books.openedition.org/pupo/2206).