ROUAULT, GEORGES. 1871-1958.
VOLLARD, AMBROSE. 1866-1939. Reincarnations de Pere Ubu. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1932.
Folio. Illustrated by Rouault with 104 wood-engravings in text (frequently full-page). Contemporary vellum, original wrappers bound in, edges gilt, slipcase. Light soiling to covers.

LIMITED EDITION, number 154 of 250 on papier de Vidalon. 'Rouault was fifteen years in completing these plates, which he began in 1916. It has been shown that his original gouache sketches were transferred by photography to the copperplate, which the artist then worked over with etching, aquatint, and drypoint to attain the dark and heavy texture. The original creator of the vicious and sinister Ubu was Alfred Jarry, whose play Ubu Roi was first performed in 1888 ... Although Ubu shocked and affronted the public, the grotesque little monster made a place for himself in the 20th century. Vollard issued several Almanachs du Pere Ubu (some illustrated with reproductions of Bonnard drawings) and expanded Jarry's chronicle' (Hofer The Artist and the Book 270).