Yvette Guilbert / Gustave Geffroy

Identifier:REF.AM.2162

Dimensions:1 volume (unpaged) : ill. ; 30 cm

Publication dates:1968

Subjects: fiction, lithographs

Description:"Toulouse-Lautrec's justly celebrated, witty and pentrating lithographs of the famous cafe-concert singer of the nineties are available to a wide public for the first time... By giving a capsule social and intellectual history of fin de siecel Paris, [Geffroy] sets the scene for the chanteuse in [Yvette Guilnert's] pale gown and long black gloves..." -- book jacket interior "This volume contains a facsimile of the 1894 [French] edition of 'Yvette Guilbert'... The Album was published in Paris by 'L'Estampe Originale' in an edition of 100 copies... For this edition, the facsimile has been reduced to 75 percent of the original... " -- colophon