[CARTOON] BAYARD, Émile. La Caricature et les caricaturistes - Lot 57

[CARTOON] BAYARD, Émile. La Caricature et les caricaturistes. Paris, Delagrave, n.d. [circa 1900]. Large quarto, publisher’s beige percaline cloth binding, plain spine adorned with a long, full-color design, front cover featuring a full-color title design by Louis Morin, gilt edges. 398 pp., facsimile preface, numerous black-and-white illustrations in the text and as inserts. Stains on the binding, spine darkened, paper discolored at the margins. Richly illustrated edition. Facsimile preface by Charles Léandre (1862–1934), famous for his caricatures and drawings published notably in *Le Rire* and *Le Figaro*, and frontispiece by Louis Morin (1855–1938), founder of the Society of Humorist Illustrators. On the title page, a stamp from the “Bethlem Hospital Library.”