Paris: Paul de Lacroix, [1890].
Price: $15,000.00
Hardcover. First edition. Eight volumes (complete). Folios. Original red half morocco, titled and decorated in gilt and marbled papercovered boards. A bit of rubbing to the boards and the corners a bit bumped, some foxing in the margins, but not affecting images, a beautiful, near fine set. Superbly illustrated with 265 mounted photographs: 62 full-page portraits, 65 medallion portraits, and 138 reproductions of paintings and sculptures. The portraits include wonderful images of Baudelaire, Rossini, Clemenceau, Alphonse Daudet, and many others by Carjat; portraits of Gustave Doré, Edmond de Goncourt, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Baron Taylor, Georges Sand, Gounod, Louis Figuier, and others by Nadar. Other portraits include: Edmond About, le Duc d'Aumale, Théodore de Banville, Bartholdi, Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Blanc, Champfleury, Puvis de Chavannes, François Coppée, Corot, Gustave Droz, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Eiffel, Octave Feuillet, Victor Hugo, Rouget de l'Isle, Jules Janin, Alphonse Karr, Cardinal Lavigerie, Emile Littré, Pierre Loti, Louis Pasteur, Ernest Renan, Thiers, Ambroise Thomas, and Emile Zola. *Galerie Contemporaine* was a weekly revue that ran from 1876 to 1885.
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