Le caprice du bibliophile

Erwin Puchinger (1876-1944). Postcard Design. Gilded pen & ink ca. 1900

Roxane

Carlos Schwabe. Frontispiece made for "L'art et L'idée" (printed by Paul Avril), éd. by Octave Uzanne. Paris: Ancienne Maison Quantin, 1892. Japanese paper.

Georges Ohnet. Un mariage américain. Paris: Société d'éditions littéraires et artistiques - Librairie Paul Ollendorff, [1909]. Book cover artist: de Parys

Bookplate with the motto, 'Fert in omnia rutubam et tristitiam terribilis amor', made by Raphaël Kirchner for Georges Goury. 1905

Willy. Danseuses. Ed. Albert Méricant. Cover art by Charles Atamian (1872, Instanbul - 1947, Paris)

Le Réveil, 1893

HOUSSAYE, Henry Aspasie Cléopatre Théodora. Paris: Les Amis des Livres, 1899 Illustrated by Adolphe Giraldon

Revival in Belle Epoque postcards of themes inspired by Antiquity

Vintage ad "La Mascota", Cigarro Mejicano published in "Almanaque Bouret", Mexico, 1897

Belle Epoque Menu Card issued by the Liebig Company

An invitation card depicting "Le Chat Blanc" (white cat). It echoes Théophile Steinlen's 1896 poster advertising the "Chat Noir" tour. It's part of the estate of French writer Paul Jeanne. Paul Jeanne often spent time in Rodolphe Salis's "Le Chat Noir", a famous cabaret located in Montmartre, the bohemian distict of Paris.