WILLETTE (Adolphe). Le Pierrot. Paris, 6 July 1888-20 March 1891. - 51 issues in-folio, 404 x 305. Bradel demi-toile dark blue with corners, smooth spine, untrimmed, slipcase (contemporary binding, modern slipcase). Complete collection of this satirical literary journal founded by the painter, illustrator and cartoonist Adolphe Willette (1857-1926). It featured drawings and caricatures by the artist as well as articles and literary texts by Émile Goudeau and Willette on two pages for the first 11 issues and by Willette alone thereafter. Twenty-six issues appeared in 1888, 23 in 1889, and 2 in March 1891 after an interruption of more than a year, the latter two having been conceived with the collaboration of Rupert Cabarin. PRECIOUS EXAMPLE OF ADOLPHE WILLETTE, whose stamp imitating his signature appears on the first guard. Inside are a few paper bookmarks and annotations by the artist's hand, some of which give interesting details and reveal the bitterness he had towards some of his collaborators. His diary was indeed a failure and this failure was a lasting disappointment for him. In number 12, corresponding to the first issue published without Goudeau's collaboration, he indicated under Goudeau's letter indicating his departure, the reason for his resignation: "because I could no longer pay for his columns". In number 17 of 1888, he added about Gillot, dedicatee of the text entitled, But where are the snows of yesteryear? this nasty remark: "(millionaire) This Gillot for 50 frs of a debt of cliché made me make 500 frs of expenses! and continue "à boulets rouges" (bailiffs style) ". Under the drawing on the cover of number 22 of 1889, he inscribed in blue: " Drawing massacred by the engraver (sic) and bastard Decaux ". He sometimes added details on some of his drawings and replaced the pseudonym he used to sign some of his poems with his name. Enriched copy of Maurice Donnay's article on La Butte, ses Écrivains et