Jules Tallandier | Paris 1902 | 25.5 x 32 cm | publisher's binding
First edition illustrated with several unpublished drawings in black and in colour by Albert Guillaume, Ferdinand Bac, Albert Robida, Lucien Métivet, Jean-Louis Forain, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, Job, Charles Léandre, Hermann Paul, Benjamin Rabier, Charles Huard, Henry Gerbault, Abel Faivre, Paul Balluriau...
Publisher's historiated binding with full boards, spine decorated with a green floral motif, bevelled boards, first board illustrated by Lucien Métivet representing the face masks of the majority of this volume's illustrators and, above them, a socialite waving and operating these caricatures with the help of a set of wires, such as those of puppets, marginally faded blue endpapers, top edge gilt, preserved illustrated wrappers, board signed Engel.
Preface by Léon Roger-Milès.
A incredibly rare copy presented in its magnificent historiated binding.