KENDALL-TAYLOR & CAMY-RENOULT. L'Espalier Rouennais. Rou - Lot 372

KENDALL-TAYLOR & CAMY-RENOULT. L'Espalier Rouennais. Rouen, Defontaine, sd (c. 1930). In-4 ff. in publisher's half cloth hardback portfolio with flaps. Rare album printed at 116 copies; no. 61 of 100 deluxe copies on Lafuma pur fil wove paper, hand-colored by the artist, signed by the author and the artist. "In this deluxe album, the witty caricaturist Kendall Taylor has assembled in 50 lithographed plates some sixty 'portrait-loads', each accompanied by a brief satirical commentary, humorously rhymed by the well-known poet and author, Camy-Renoult", prospectus (illustrated with a portrait of G. Dubosc). Complete with 50 color plates of caricatures of Rouen personalities of the period. With an additional unsigned black plate depicting a view of the rooftops of Rouen Cathedral.