Psst...! Numbers 1-85 (all published)

AUCTION 27 | Tuesday, February 08th, 2005 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 70
(DREYFUS AFFAIR).

Psst...! Numbers 1-85 (all published)

Each issue of 4 pages illustrated by Jean-Louis Forain and Caran d’Ache. Prefaced by single leaf containing biographies of Forain and Caran D'Ache. * BOUND WITH: 22 issues (27th March, 1892 - 5th May, 1899) of another illustrated Parisian gazette: Gil Blas Illustré. Each issue pp. 8. Followed by single-page biography of illustrator Steinlen Bound in contemporary speckled board, rebacked. Folio

Paris: Librairie Plon 5th February, 1898 - 16th September, 1899

Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Complete series of this virulently anti-Semitic weekly newspaper. See N.L. Kleeblatt, The Dreyfus Affair: Art Truth & Justice (1987) pp. 91-2 and 176-81 (illustrated)