TESTEVUIDE (Jehan, Jean Saurel dit). 1914-1915. [Clermont-en - Lot 75

TESTEVUIDE (Jehan, Jean Saurel dit). 1914-1915. [Clermont-en-Ardonne], [June 1915]. In folio (375 x 274 mm) with 1 f. table, 43 plates, in sheets, cover illustrated in color, muted gray cloth box, slightly soiled on upper cover. Rare album of 43 color lithographed caricatures of 5th Corps staff officers during WWI. Dedicated to Sister Gabrielle R., superior of the Clermont hospital, this work may have been composed during the artist's convalescence. Illustrator and caricaturist Jean Saurel (1873-1922) contributed under the pseudonym Jehan Testevuide to various newspapers and magazines, including La Semaine de Suzette, Le Sourire, Le Frou-frou, L'Assiette au beurre, Le Monde illustré and Le Cri de Paris. Limited edition, this one no. 65 printed and colored especially for Commandant Fontaine. A fine copy. (Absent from Colas).