Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller

Paris: (Chamerot et Renouard) for Henri Floury, (1898). First and limited edition, #164/355 numbered copies on Arches paper (from a total edition of 380). 4to. (iv), 107, (1), (4) pp. Illustrated with 10 lithographed plates on wove paper and six lithographed tail-pieces, by Lautrec; without the additional suite of 10 lithographs on China paper. Finely bound in full red-orange levant, decorated in black and in gilt forming a radiating Star of David on front and rear boards, lettered and decorated in black and in gilt along spine, spine ends rubbed; reverse brown calf endleaves; original lithographed wrappers bound in; in matching red morocco and marbled paper-covered slip case and chemise; by Georges Crette. From the library of Barbara and Ira Lipman. The Artist and the Book 302; Wittrock 188-201

A superb Georges Crette binding on this collaboration between French journalist and statesman Georges Clemenceau and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, his most substantial illustrated work for a book. "An account of ghetto life in Poland, a shrewd observer of his subjects, Lautrec spent hours in the Tournelle quarter of Paris, sketching poor Russian and Polish Jews. The author and statesman Clemenceau appears twice" (The Artist and the Book, p. 205).