Posters.- Maîtres de l'Affiche (Les), 5 vol., vol. 1 one of 100 deluxe copies on Japon, signed by author of the preface Roger Marx and bound from parts with original wrappers bound in, other vol. regular copies on wove paper, half-titles, 248 lithographs printed in colours only (of 256, lacking plates 76, 114, 130, 144, 180, 182, 187 & 202 but with the 16 supplementary plates), each with Les Maîtres de l'Affiche blind-stamp, some with tissue-guards (rather torn), vol. 5 with light staining to title and damp-stain to first few plates upper-margin, occasional short tears or fraying to margins, mainly to half-titles/titles and repaired, the odd small marginal repair elsewhere, some soiling, all leaves mounted on stubs, ex-Victoria and Albert Museum & Royal College of Art Library with bookplates/labels to endpapers, embossed stamp to foot of titles, small ink reference to titles verso and ink-stamp to some preliminary text ff., vol. 1 contemporary green half morocco, backstrip working loose at head, vol. 2-5 original pictorial cloth designed by Paul Berthon, rebacked with original backstrips laid down, library sticker to foot of spines, rubbed and worn in places, particularly to corners, vol. 3-5 new endpapers (those of vol. 2 frayed and detached), folio, Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1896-1900.

⁂ Iconic series of small-format reproductions of the most popular and famous posters of the fin-de-siecle, by Jules Chéret, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Alphonse Mucha, Paul Berthon, Théophile Steinlen and others. Copies on Japon are particularly scarce in commerce.