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LACROIX, Paul de (ed.)
Galerie Contemporaine des Illustrations Françaises.
The more than 160 mounted photographs include portraits of Baudelaire by Carjat, Victor Hugo, Rossini, François Coppée, Gounod, le Duc d'Aumale, Corot, Edmond About, Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Droz, Bartholdi, Rouget de l'Isle, Thiers, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Doré, Edmond de Goncourt, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Baron Taylor, Cardinal Lavigerie, Jules Janin, Ernest Renan, Octave Feuillet, Ambroise Thomas, Alphonse Karr, Pierre Loti, Champfleury, Georges Sand, Emile Littré, Théodore de Banville, Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Figuier, Lous Blanc, Alphonse Daudet, Louis Pasteur, Gustave Eiffel, Emile Zola, along with other French authors and artists, and reproductions of paintings and sculptures.
8 volumes, folio. Original half morocco with marbled boards, titles and decoration to boards gilt. Profusely illustrated with more than 160 mounted photographs. Edges lightly rubbed. A handsome set.
