Guilbert, Yvette; illustrations by Toulouse-Lautrec and others The Song of My Life Yvette

Yvette Guilbert (1865-1944) was a "French singer, reciter and stage and film actress, who had an immense vogue as a singer of songs drawn from Parisian lower-class life. Her ingenuous delivery of songs charged with risque meaning made her famous" - Encyclopaedia Britannica. She was with the Moulin Rouge and Les Ambassadeurs for seven years and then with the Folies Bergere for nine years. She also toured Italy, the United States and England. One of Touloue-Lautrec's most famous posters featured Guilbert in her trade-mark long black gloves and yellow gown.

Blue cloth-boards, blind rules to upper panel, gilt to spine. Top edge gilt. Plain endpapers. 329 pp of prelims, text and index + inserted photogravure frontispiece and 47 other plates on art paper.

CONDITION. The copy has been repaired with a matching Skivertex spine with the original spine cover laid down, new endpapers and new head- and tail-bands. The book is tightly bound. The gilt page-edge has dulled. There is an ownership name and blind stamp on the half-title. The contents are complete, including all the plates, and unmarked. The text is sporadically foxed throughout, but with no loss of readability. The plates are undiscoloured and bright.