MAINDRON (Ernest). Les Affiches illustrées. Paris: Librairie artistique, H. Launette, 1886. [With]: COLLECTIF. Les Affiches Étrangères illustrées par MM. Bauwens, T. Hayashi, La Forgue, Meier-Graefe, J. Pennell. Paris: Librairie artistique, G. Boudet, C. Tallandier, 1897. - 2 works in 2 volumes, large in-8, 314x222: (1 f.), (1 p.),xpp. (1 f.), 160 pp. 29 plates, illustrated cover; (2 ff.), III, 206 pp. (1 f.), 68 plates, illustrated cover. Orange half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, ornate ribbed spine, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Stroobants). First edition of these two complementary works, which are essential to the history of illustrated posters, old and new. The first work concerns only French illustrated posters. Designed by Ernest Maindron, it features numerous black reproductions in the text and on full pages, as well as 29 color plates, 20 of which reproduce posters by Jules Chéret. Edition of 525 copies, this being one of 500 numbered on wove paper. It includes a double state of the cover illustrated by Jules Chéret. Without the second volume published in 1896. - The second volume, which complements the first, was published more than 10 years later. Composed by Bauwens, Hayashi, La Forgue, Meier-Graefe and J. Pennell, it covers illustrated foreign posters (Germany, England, Austria, Belgium, United States of America and Japan). It also includes numerous full-page and in-text black reproductions, as well as 68 color plates. Edition of 1,050 copies, this one of 1,000 numbered on wove paper. Enriched with the publication prospectus. Very fine copies bound by Stroobants. Used rubbing to nerves.