Les Veber's de veber, Pierre and Jean - 1895

Paris: Emile Testard, 1895. 4to, original color illustrated wrappers depicting the brothers holding masks and their names lettered in seven languages. Number 4 of only 25 copies on Japon Imperial of an edition of fifty. Fine copy of collection of lampoons of Belle Époque culture. Les Veber's was the collective pseudonym of the brothers. Pierre was the editor of Gil Blas, a weekly journal devoted to theater, music hall and café-concert performances. His brother Jean was a prodigiously talented caricaturist and printmaker, who caricatures here the notable figures of Parisian theater, belles-lettres and politics. Jean contributed also to Le Rire and L'Assiette au Beurre. Numerous double portraits of the brothers appear throughout the text. An illustration can be found on my website by clicking on Catalogue 31 (item 86).. Color Illustrated Wrappers. Fine. Illus. by Jean Weber. 4to.