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1885ref. 65556Paris: La librairie illustrée 1885. Fine. La librairie illustrée Paris 1885 - 1886 24.50 x 32 cm 2 volumes reliés Illustrated edition by Robida first printing with 49 plates 8 in color 35 in camaieu and 6 in black and numerous text illustrations approximately 600. Publisher's polychrome illustrated boards signed Souze and bound by Engel. Special gilt and blue plate on red ground. Spine similar. Rear board with a half-timbered house in a central roundel and blind angular cornerpieces. Front board of first volume very good that of the second with a 1cm diameter stain and soiling to the upper part of the black border. Lower corners bumped others rubbed. A tear to the spine of the first volume. Headcaps rubbed those at head turned in. Soiling to rear boards. Scattered and unevenly distributed foxing. Some leaves sprung. Despite flaws a handsome copy overall of this rare binding. Robida's masterpiece of illustration with genuine imaginative profusion baroque and delightfully exuberant. La librairie illustrée hardcover
1914ref. 2870Paris: E. Baudelot 1914. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. 32 pp. plus 8 full-page lithographs by Robida all within a portfolio of three-quarter cloth and boards cloth ties. Title lettered in black on front. Light edge wear to portfolio else a fine and complete set. The complete series of 8 lithographs by this great french illustrator 7 of which are SIGNED IN PENCIL BY ROBIDA. The original lithographs depict the cities of France and Belgium destroyed by the Germans in World War I. Included are Reims Louvain Senlis Malines Arras Termonde Soissons and Ypres. Each of the fascicules was originally sold separately. At some point sets of the 8 prints were gathered together and issued with the portfolio. Complete sets with the lithographs signed by the artist are very rare. E. Baudelot hardcover
1895ref. 32791Paris: Libraries-Imprimeries Réunuies 1895. First edition. Albert Robida. 2 preliminary leaves iv 230 pages 1 leaf illustrations color plates facsimiles in colors. 30 cm. Bound by Jill Oriane Tarlau signed on front turn-in dark green Oasis goat skin with onlays of various colors gilt and blind tooling rough-gilt edges brocade endsheets wrappers preserved chemise and slipcase. Fine condition. Libraries-Imprimeries Réunuies unknown
ref. 51904Paris: Librairie Illustrée. Rabelais François between 1483-94 - 1553. Oeuvres de Rabelais. 2 vols. 4 viii 494 2; 4 484pp. 42 plates some in color; text illustrations by Albert Robida 1848-1926. Paris: Librairie Illustrée 1885-86. 313 x 227 mm. Original publisher's binding of red cloth elaborately stamped in blue black and gilt signed "Engel rel." in the binding; slipcase. Slight edgewear hinges a trifle weak traces of bookplate removal on front endpapers of both volumes but a fine example with the covers clean and bright. First Robida Edition. Robida an illustrator and caricaturist provided the artwork for this famous edition of the works of Rabelais including the design for the striking publisher's binding. . Librairie Illustrée unknown
1893ref. 465821893. Robida Albert 1848-1926. Le vingtième siècle: La vie électrique. 4 234 2pp. 30 plates some in color; text illustrations. Paris: La Librairie Illustrée n.d. 1893. 290 x 200 mm. Publisher's binding of light green cloth with pictorial design stamped in red black and gilt all edges gilt slight soiling and wear; boxed. Occasional foxing but very good to fine. First Edition of Robida's satire on expectations for technology in the 20th century. . unknown
