Auguste ROUBILLE (1872-1955) illustrator. L.A.S., January 21 - Lot 16

Auguste ROUBILLE (1872-1955) illustrator. L.A.S., January 21, 1908, 9 original graphite drawings (2 signed) and 4 lithographed plates, [1908]; 1 page in-8 autograph, drawings on in-4 sheets and in-8 plates in color mounted on in-fol. album leaves, plates with date stamp of the Distillerie de la Bénédictine. Advertisements for Benedictine liqueur. Letter of dispatch to Mr. Gaultier of "Benedictine sketches", requesting that he take into account "the lack of colors and solids in judging them"... The sketches depict various characters with a bottle of "Benedictine" liqueur; some have been translated into advertising lithographs: a hotel hunter, a lady jockey, a bartender and an old man in his library. At the head, an engraved portrait of Roubille. We enclose 5 lithographs (greeting cards) by Franck Innocent with a L.A.S.