LE COURRIER FRANÇAIS - Lot 169

LE COURRIER FRANÇAIS Illustrated magazine published every Saturday Literature, Fine Arts, Theater, Medicine, Finance N° 16, April 19, 1891 then N° 26, June 28, 1891-N° 33, August 16, 1891. Paris, Director: Jules Roques. Issues containing writings by or about Paul Verlaine. The issue of September 6, 1891 is missing to contain everything Verlaine wrote in Le Courrier français. Texts by Jules Bois, Jean Lorrain, Gabriel Mourey, Raoul Ponchon, Charles Quinel, L. Xanrof, etc. Illustrations by Cazals, J.-L. Forain, Heidbrinck, Louis Legrand, F. Lunel, Uzès, A. Willette, etc. 9 issues in 1 vol. in-folio bound. Handwritten notes by Vasseur (1 f.). Joint : - 1 portrait of Verlaine ; - Le Courrier français's lunch menu for its longest-standing contributor Adolphe Willette, illustrated in color by Willette and printed on Japon paper. Le Courrier français was published from November 16, 1884 to May 1914.