![ROBIN, Léon (illustrator). 'Alphabet Clownesque'. [?Bordeaux:] 1886. 4° (312 x 236mm). Title and 28 fine original pen, ink and watercolour drawings by Léon Robin measuring 152 x 108mm, mounted on pale blue paper, each within a simple pen and ink frame, the title signed and dated "Robin, Avril [18]86". Contemporary blue cloth illustrated in watercolour and with two monograms (extremities rubbed, some light staining and scratching, lower upper joints split). Provenance: the front free endpaper INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST "à Nils et Pierre Burman, souvenir amical Léon Robin, Bordeaux, 3 Mai 1886."](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2007/CSK/2007_CSK_05328_0067_000(031926).jpg?w=1)
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ROBIN, Léon (illustrator). 'Alphabet Clownesque'. [?Bordeaux:] 1886. 4° (312 x 236mm). Title and 28 fine original pen, ink and watercolour drawings by Léon Robin measuring 152 x 108mm, mounted on pale blue paper, each within a simple pen and ink frame, the title signed and dated "Robin, Avril [18]86". Contemporary blue cloth illustrated in watercolour and with two monograms (extremities rubbed, some light staining and scratching, lower upper joints split). Provenance: the front free endpaper INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST "à Nils et Pierre Burman, souvenir amical Léon Robin, Bordeaux, 3 Mai 1886."
A FINE COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS by a highly accomplished, although unrecorded, artist. In addition to the title (illustrated), which depicts a clown and a monkey on a stage before an audience of children, the album includes studies of a performing dog, a cat sitting in a hoop, and various clown figures shaped to the letters of the alphabet.
A FINE COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS by a highly accomplished, although unrecorded, artist. In addition to the title (illustrated), which depicts a clown and a monkey on a stage before an audience of children, the album includes studies of a performing dog, a cat sitting in a hoop, and various clown figures shaped to the letters of the alphabet.
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