CITY WORKS] - Around 550 programs, menus, invitations and a - Lot 659

CITY WORKS] - Around 550 programs, menus, invitations and advertisements, laminated on heavy paper. They were collected by Pascal Greppe, notary in Claye-Souilly and former president of the Chambre des notaires de Meaux. Some of these items were sent to him. c. 1890. 2 vol. in-4, a large number of pieces are full-page, more or less approaching the 32 x 24 cm format, green half-chag. with faded spine. The collector has inserted the complete work by Ernest Maindron, Les Programmes illustrés, Paris, 1897, reproducing works by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (2), A. Roubille, Jules Chéret, H.G. Ibels, Louis Oury, A. Depré, Henri Gerbault, G. Rochegrosse, Georges de Feure, Maurice Neumon, A. Willette , etc. The 63 plates, 45 of them in color, are included with the two covers. He has interspersed around 500 various lithographed, clichéd or etched pieces, including works by : Lunois, H. Boutet, Louis Legrand, Robida, F. Bac, Caran d'Ache, Job, H. Somm, R. Piguet, Guillaume, Clerget, Jacques Villon, P. Avril, Félicien Rops, etc., a dozen menus or invitations in chromolithograpies by Mucha, two cards by Chahine and F. Valloton for the print publisher Sagot, another advertisement for Eugène Delâtre. Chéret-style chromolithographed multi-panel advertisements for the caf' conf' de la Scala, Moulin Rouge, Cabaret des Quat'z'arts, Folies Bergères and Eldorado. A similar composition appears for the Piaza de Toros. A dozen Bon Bock menus, an ad for Restaurant Julien by Guillaume, three Japanese-style color menus for the Touring Club de France on crepe paper. There are also two advertisements for the Bal des Incohérents, an invitation to the Salon de la Rose-Croix for Mr. and Mrs. Révillon signed by Sar Peladan, greeting cards published for Octave Uzanne, and Arsène Houssaye, and more.