Autour du Cabinet. Les Gens du “Bloc” par Bruno. Prefaces by Edouard Drumont and Francois Coppee.

AUCTION 68 | Thursday, April 07th, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art

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(DREYFUS AFFAIR).

Autour du Cabinet. Les Gens du “Bloc” par Bruno. Prefaces by Edouard Drumont and Francois Coppee.

Cartoon illustrations throughout. pp. 24. Includes advertisement for La Libre Parole (Drumont’s anti-Semitic journal). Original color illustrated wrappers, inscription on upper cover, light wear, edges torn. Oblong folio.

Paris: Librarie Antisemite 1903

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $550

Edouard Drumont (1844-1917) founder in 1889 of the French Anti-Semitic League was a leading member of the anti-Dreyfusards. Similarly writer Francois Coppee (1842-1908) took a leading role in the Dreyfus affair. This volume caricatures many of their shared targets including, Alfred Dreyfus, Emile Zola, Joseph Reinach, Jean Jaures, Abbe Combes, etc.