Author: Goupil & Cie.
Title: Galerie contemporaine, littéraire, artistique. [COMPLETE SET].
Description: Paris, Ludovic Baschet, 1876-1884. 13 vols. 117 large & 120 small photographed portraits and 226 mounted photographed plates of paintings & sculptures, num. text ills. and facs. Contemp. unif. gilt red hmor. Folio. - Usual occas. foxing; first and last few pages of some vol. sl. dam in blank margins (2x sl. affect. text); one vol. lacks free endpaper and title-p. loose; some covers sl. (water)stained (1 vol. worse); occas. trifle rubbed at extremities. - Still a good set.Extremely rare complete set consisting of year 1 (1st/2nd half, 1876), 2 (1st/2nd half, 1876/1877), 3 (1st/2nd half, 1878), 4 (1st/2nd half, 1879), 5 (1st half, 1880) and NEW SERIES, year 5-8 (1881-1884). - All published; rarely found complete. - The Galerie (published in parts) is the most important 19th century French publication with woodbury types, produced by Goupil & Cie. It consist of biographies of French artists and men of letter (i.a. C. Baudelaire, Sainte-Beuve, A. Deudet, C. Gounod, E. Zola, V. Hugo, J. Verne). written by contemporaries and illustrated with portraits by the best photographers at the time (such as NADAR, ETIENNE CARJAT & P. PETIT) Cf. Photography: the first eighty years (1976), p.69-72; Blogett, Photographs: A Collector's guide (1979), p. 84-85.

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