RARE ILLUSTRATIONS BY ROBIDA - Lot 259

RARE ILLUSTRATIONS BY ROBIDA [ROBIDA]. DON QUICHOTTE ses plus belles aventures. Paris (imp. Crémieu), Imagerie merveilleuse de l'Enfance, [1900?] Small 12-page in-4° album. Color illustrated card covers, spine cracked. First edition of nineteen color engravings by Albert Robida. A charming album for young people, published around 1900. It is so rare that Palau does not quote it. The in-text illustrations depict the main episodes of Le Quichotte. See Philippe Brun's bibliography. A DIVERSION FROM THE TEXT (enclosed). TANTE NICOLE. PIERROT DON QUICHOTTE. Paris, Ch. Delagrave, [1901] Small volume in-4° (48 pp) beige boards illustrated with a childish Don Quichotte on a bluish background. Red percaline spine. A children's book that hijacks the text to make it accessible to younger readers. It is illustrated with twelve full-page comic compositions on a black background by Jean Geoffroy. Not cited by Palau.