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Lot 189

La Libre Parole – Anti-Semitic League in France – Volume of Issues – 1895-1896

La Libre Parole, Eduard Drumont [published by Grand Imp.]. Paris, 1895-1896.
Volume with about 91 issues of a weekly paper, from April 30 1895 until December 19, 1896. Some of the issues were published more frequently. The paper was published by journalist Eduard Drumont, founder of the anti-Semitic league in France. Each issue opens with a caricature or a drawing, most of them anti-Semitic and printed in color. Some issues feature anti-Semitic caricatures on the middle double-spread page.
About 91 bound issues, 37 cm. Elaborate binding. Fair condition, thin leaves, falling-apart. Tears to margins of leaves. Yellowed paper. Binding worn at margins.