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Auction 16 · Lot 85

CARAN D’ACHE. Carnet de Chèques [“Book of Checks”-satirical anti-Semitic caricatures]

Estimate
$500–$700
Hammer price
$500

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author

(DREYFUS AFFAIR).

printer

E. Plon

Place

Paris

Publication

n.d.

Description

Album of photomechanical print illustrations

summary

Satirical caricatures depicting Jewish financiers by the anti-Semitic and anti-Dreyfusard French comic artist Caran D’Ache. “We are pleased to present before the Public eye these famous checks reconstituted at the cost of some pain...”
ff. (24). Few light stains in places. Original cloth backed marbled boards with original printed wrapper tipped to upper cover, gently rubbed at extremities. Elongated 16mo (12.5 x 28cm).
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