THE FRIEND OF THE ANIMALS Monthly illustrated newspaper 1st year: n° 1, February 1899-n° 12, January 1900; 2nd year: n° 1, February 1900-n° 11, December 1900; 3rd year: n° 1, January 1901-n° 12, December 1901; 4th year: n° 1, January 1902-n° 5, May 1902. Paris, Director-Editor in chief: Adrienne Neyrat. Texts by Maurice Bouchor, Léon Cladel, Alfred des Essarts, Anatole France, Charles Fuster, Urbain Gohier, Paul Hervieu, Clovis Hugues, Marc Legrand, Jules Lemaître, Pierre Loti, Paul Margueritte, Victor Margueritte, Octave Mirbeau, Adrienne Neyrat, Jules Renard, Séverine, Armand Silvestre, Baron de Vaux, Émile Zola (Letter), etc. Illustrations by Léon Barillot, Job, Mucha, Steinlen. Cover illustrated by Auguste Vimar. 40 numbers in 39 issues in 1 vol. in-folio bound (with on the 1st plate an illustration printed on canvas which covered a publisher's binding). Handwritten notes of Vasseur (3 ff.). Joint: - 2 L.A.S. from Henri Mitterand to André Vasseur (1968), about a letter and a text of Émile Zola published in L'Ami des Bêtes; - 1 postcard reproducing the cover of the newspaper La Tribune des Bêtes. L'Ami des Bêtes was founded for propaganda purposes and to spread the ideas of justice and benevolence towards animals. Eloquently pleading the cause of animals, the magazine is entirely devoted to animals, to their defense, to the friendship and affection that one should have for them, to their life, their "spirit" and their "heart".