Author: Sainte-Beuve, (Charles Augustin).
Title: Galerie de femmes célèbres.
Description: Paris, Garnier Frères, (1859). Hardcover. Quarto. Pp. 470, (4). Plus 13 portraits including frontispiece, finely engraved on steel, each protected by a tissue-guard. Hardcover, bound by the binder Fock in contemporary quarter morocco and pebbled cloth over boards, spine gilt in compartments between gilt-ruled raised bands, direct gilt lettering, sides blind-ruled, silken endpapers, all edges gilt, cloth ribbon marker. In fine condition. A very handsome copy. ~ Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869) was a literary critic and one of the major figures of French literary history. He was made a member of the Académie française in 1844. The engravings are by G. Staal, after the paintings of Gouttière, Outhwaite, Geoffroy, Girardet, Delannoy, Gervais, and others. B-6 .

Keywords: WOMEN STUDIES FEMINISM FRANCE FRENCH EUROPE ILLUSTRATED ENGRAVED ENGRAVING ENGRAVINGS WOOD COPPER METAL NOISBN


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