Lot 391
All Issues of the Antisemitic Weekly Psst! – Paris, 1898-1899 – Anti-Dreyfus Caricatures
Psst...! Illustrated magazine founded by Jean-Louis Forain and Caran d'Ache (penname of Emmanuel Poire). Paris, February 1898 to September 1899. Complete run of 85 issues (no further issues printed). French.
"Psst!" was a French weekly satirical magazine published at the time of the Dreyfus Affair to promote the anti-Dreyfus cause. The hundreds of vehement illustrations by Forain and Caran d'Ache are considered to be amongst the most extreme anti-Semitic publications related to the Dreyfus Affair.
85 issues. [4] pp per issue. 40 cm. Good-fair condition (several issues in fair condition). Stains. Creases, tears and open tears (some of them large). The issues are in a parchment binding, detached and damaged.
