VEBER (Jean and Pierre). Les Veber's Les Veber's. Paris: Émile Testard, 1895 [Followed by]: La Joviale comédie. Paris : H. Simonis Empis, 1896. - 2 works in one volume in-8, 279 x 190 : (4 ff. 2 first blanks), 182 pp, (1 f.), illustrated cover ; 160 pp, illustrated cover. Bradel half havana morocco with corners, gilt fillets, smooth spine decorated, gilt head, untrimmed, covers and spine preserved (Ad. Lavaux). First edition of these two satirical and caustic albums by the Veber brothers, on the political, literary and societal affairs of the time. Pierre was a writer, playwright and humorist, known for his theatrical criticism. His brother Jean was a painter and caricaturist who contributed to many newspapers such as Gil Blas, L'Illustration, Le Rire and L'Assiette au Beurre. Each book is illustrated with more than 300 humorous and caricatural compositions in the text by Jean Veber. Copies on China paper, from an edition at 25 copies for Les Veber's Les Veber's Les Veber's (n° 36) and at 10 copies for La Joviale comédie (not numbered). Precious copy enriched with the following items : - 2 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS IN CHINESE INK WITH BLUE PENCIL AND AQUAREL, SIGNED BY JEAN VEBER, used for the illustration . The first, entitled "La Monnaie de singe" (The Monkey's Money), shows the artist seated in the center on straw, wearing a halo, with his painting palette in front of him, with three people applauding, a priest swinging a censer and an orang-utan handing him a coin. This drawing is partly reproduced on page 164 of the first book. The second is a caricature of Marcel Schwob, dedicated by the artist to the latter, reproduced on page 6 of the same book. - 2 AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRITS SIGNED BY PIERRE VEBER, one of 7 pages in-8, with corrections, entitled Le Consolateur, bound at the head of the first book, the other of 2 pages in-8, with corrections, signed "Sam", entitled Les Étrennes du petit Chamot, bound at the head of the second book, published notably in the Canadian newspaper Le Canard on December 26, 1915. - 3 L.A.S. from Jean Veber, mounted at the head of the second book, the first dated July 17, 1877, 1 1/2 page in-12, the second dated May 8, 1901, 1 page in-16 (about his brother's play Ma fée), and the third dated November 12, 1904, 2 pages in-12 (about the sale of drawings). A few scattered foxing without gravity. Cover of the second work lined.