EXPOSITION D'AFFIXHES ARTISTIQUE françaises et étrangères, modernes et rétrospectives. Entrée 1fr. Au Cirque de Reims.1896

Presses de l'imprimerie Coopérative, Reims, 1896. 1 vol. in-4 (25 x 12 cm) 202 pp. printed in blue ink, cover illustrated in color. Catalog 1000 copies of the first exhibition of artistic posters held in Reims in November 1896 with its preserved cover reproducing on the first dish the poster of the architect Ernest Kalas. This catalog contains: a) the description as early as 1690 most beautiful posters French, German, American, English, Austrian, Belgian, Danish, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, Annamese, Japanese, which are for the most part in the collection Mr Alexandre Henriot, President of the Society of the Friends of the Arts of Reims, b) the portraits of 48 of the main artists, c) and the bibliography of reviews and journals related. [The 48 portraits announced in the title are thumbnails inserted in the text accompanied by a short biography]. These considerations were enough to give birth to the Exhibition which will open, Exhibition which I tried to make as complete as possible and for which I found collaborators whom I wish to thank here. Mrs Roger BRAUN of Paris, Ed. MONNIER of Brussels, Mr. L'HOSTE de Reims, and finally Mr. EDMOND SAGOT, the amateur and the printshop dealer who first thought the poster was an Art document, let me draw heavily on their cartons and I owe them for having been able to form this unprecedented monograph (Alexandre Henriot, President of the Society of Friends of the Arts, Reims, October 28, 1896). Precious catalog of the first exhibition of the kind held in 1896