[Satire] L'assiette au beurre

1901-03, nos. 1-104, incl. 2 special issues between nos. 46 and 47 and between nos. 59 and 60. Bound in 2 vols. Unif. blindst. dec. leather w. inset plate, gilt title on ribbed spine. Each issue w. orig. ill. wr., ills. throughout (most col.) by a.o. Stenlein, Cam. Lefevre, P. Jouvre, A. Willette, Didier Dubucq, Jean Veber and Louis Morin.

L'Assiette au Beurre was a weekly periodical that satirised and attacked the bourgeois and government institutions as well as addressed var. social and political issues of the Belle Epoque era. Each issue was ill. by a single artist. Ex libris front pastedown both vols. Covers worn, bookblock detached from spine vol. 1, foxing. (total 2)