Oh!! Albert Brasseur [cover titling] / Nos grandes actrices parisiennes et leur opinion sur Le Quina-Laroche -Presentees par Brasseur -Dessinees par De Losques -Celebrees par Redelsperger -Gravees par Devambez [titlepage]

Brasseur, Albert

Paris: Devambez, 1910. Complete, rebound: 18p. + all ten plates (advertisements for a quinine apertif) are in good shape; presswork is color-lithography. An irresistable look-see on the part of non-buyers evidently destroyed the original binding; every leaf whether text or plate has been provided with inch-wide strips of old document tape at the gutter, recto and verso, and sewn together. None of the graphics are touched, but the tapings come close. Titlepage, a sort of eleventh color graphic, has suffered damage: the face of "Albert" is smudged. Leaves are held by relatively recent threads, exposed here and there. The casing is original but was obviously fiddled-with. Color-decorated covers are soiled and stained although the gray-green buckram backstrip looks clean (buckram is tough!) and newish ribbon-ties have been inserted in place of the old disappeared ones. Value of item possibly lies in the caricatures of the ten featured actresses, should the reader be versed in fin de siecle French stage matters. In short, a reasonably okay copy.

Cat.No: 251717

Price: $75.00