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NEWTwo hardcover volumes, 205 x 160 mm each, uniformly bound in red quarter-shagreen over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, original wrappers preserved, marbled endpapers, previous owner’s bookplate to front pastedown “Ex libris de Alfred de Maghellen 02”, and his initials to spine. Text printed on wove paper, red initials, top margin speckled, other trimmed roughly. La Rive Droite: [1-11] 12-278 [12], pagination includes wrappers; collated 8vo: ffl, front wrapper, π3 [1]-178 184, rear wrapper, ffl; plates within collation, i.e. 145 leaves total, excl. ffls. La Rive Gauche: [1-11] 12-290 [12], pagination includes wrappers; collated 8vo: ffl, front wrapper, π3 1-188 192, rear wrapper, ffl; plates within collation, i.e. 151 leaves total, excl. ffls. Title-page (red and black): PARIS VIEUX & NEUF | DESSINS DE CHARLES HUARD | TEXTE PAR ANDRÉ BILLY | LA RIVE GAUCHE (LA RIVE DROITE) | ❦ | ÉDITÉ PAR EUGÈNE REY, LIBRAIRE | 8, BOULEVARD DES ITALIENS, PARIS | 1909 || Colophon: IMPRIME | SUR LES PRESSES | DE " LA SEMEUSE " | POUR | EUGÈNE REY | LIBRAIRE-ÉDITEUR | PARIS || Contributors: André Billy (French, 1882 – 1971) – author. Charles Huard (French, 1874 – 1965) – artist. Eugène Rey (French, 1868 – 1949) – publisher Alfred de Maghellen (French, 1871 – 1959) – provenance (bookplate)
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Le Rire : journal humoristique hebdomadaire, 1899, 51 issues №№ 218-269 (lacking № 233 April 22nd), quarter bound by a contemporary owner in dark green faux morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, gilt lettering to spine, 307 x 250 mm. Publisher: Félix Juven (French, 1862 – 1947) Printer: Bertin et Cie Artists: Jules Abel Faivre (French, 1867 – 1945) Lucien Marie François Métivet (French, 1863 – 1932) Charles Lucien Léandre (French, 862 – 1934) Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852 – 1931) Jules Maurice Radiguet (French, 1866 – 1941) Louis-Christian Does [Döes, Doës] (French, 1859 – 1944) René Georges Hermann-Paul (French, 1864 – 1940) Caran d’Ache [Emmanuel Poiré] (French, 1858 – 1909) Charles Huard (French, 1874 – 1965) Benjamin Rabier (French, 1864 – 1939) Georges Meunier (French, 1869 – 1942) Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (Swiss-French, 1848 – 1934) Guydo [Joseph Robert Guillaume Le Barrois d'Orgeval] (French, 1868 – 1930) Henri [Henry] Gerbault (French, 1863 – 1930) Adolphe Willette (French, 1857 – 1926) Auguste Roubille (French, 1872 – 1955) Leonetto Cappiello (French, 1875 – 1942) Fernand Fau (French, 1858 – 1915) Georges Delaw [Deleau] (French, 1871 – 1938) Georges Tiret-Bognet (French, 1855 – 1935) Édouard Couturier (French, 1869 – 1903) Jean Villemot (French, 1880 – 1958) Guy Kadell (French, 18?? – 19??) Henri Louis Avelot (French, 1873 – 1935) Jan [Jean] Duch