Author: Goupil & Cie.
Title: Galerie contemporaine, littéraire, artistique. Vol.7.
Description: Paris, Ludovic Baschet, n.d. [c. 1880]. 17 issues in total. Text & 27 woodburry-types (tipped in). Gilt-tooled & raised leather over marbled boards. - Some shelfwear. 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 written by contemporaries and illustrated with portraits by the best photographers of its time. Cf. Photography: the first eighty years (1976), p.69-72; Blogett, Photographs: A Collector's guide (1979), p. 84-85.

Keywords: Photography Fotografie