Edouard MANET (1832 - 1883) and other artists Hat and guitar. Frontispiece for the Cahier de quatorze eaux-fortes (2 copies). Etching, one on blue-gray paper with a small gray band bearing the number of the collection and the artist's initials in ink ( number 31) on a filled sheet with slightly yellowed edges, the other on imitation Japon, the printer's name erased has a gap in the upper edge. (Guérin 62,II/III, III/III) 22.5 x 21cm. Attached: -Orphée, after G. Moreau engraved by L.Perret for the Société des Aquafortistes. 29 x 18cm. -Le Pendu by H. Jossot, lithograph in color on red ground, published in l'Epreuve, issue no. 3 February 1895 with number 65 on verso at the compositor, traces of creasing, rubbing, corners of right edge glued (A. et A. Bonafous-Murat 219). 31.7 x 14.4cm. Set of 4 plates 500 600

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