SEM (GOUSART Georges (1863-1934))

SEM (GOUSART Georges (1863-1934))
- Various albums of caricatures
Set of portfolio albums or sheets containing preparatory plates colored or enhanced with white, with handwritten annotations of edition, and prints belonging to several albums, including:
- Album No. 11 - Paris, Opera, 3rd series - June 1901 - 34 plates including 7 doubles. Complete. In its portfolio (fresh colours, good general condition).
- Set of 4 preparatory plates in colours, with annotations on some of them, including 1 double, in sheets: pl. 9 of the New World (2nd series) (album n°25)| pl. 27 of the album n°27 representing "Elsa Maxwell, danse vue de dos"| pl.27 of the album n°12 - Paris - Maxim's - June 1902, representing Suzanne Derval| and 1 double plate representing notably Robert de Rothschild (unidentified album) (some flaws in the plates).
- Le vrai & le faux chic - Paris, Succès - 1914. Cover decorated with the title in black and a gilt decoration in relief (a pair of dressmaker's scissors)
Numerous coloured compositions. Sem caricatures in this album the fashion of the pre-war years by opposing the true chic and the false chic.
44 pages of texts and illustrations in black and in color. [Does not contain the advertising pages]. (Cover soiled, interior in very good condition).
- Album bound in red half-percaline including: Voyage autour de ma colonne. From the author, cover illustrated in colour. 20 pp.
(including the cover) of caricatures in 2 or 3 tones representing Napoleon visiting the shops of the Place Vendôme in the 1920s.
(Rare)| Le nouveau monde (à l'envers). [1925], 20-page copy of color lithographs with illustrated printed cover|
Le nouveau monde. 3rd series, illustrated covers in color, 26 plates in color (Very good condition).