GALERIE CONTEMPORAINE des illustrations françaises. Paris, Lacroix, s.d. 8 volumes in-4, red half-chag. with corners (Magnier et Fils). A very important collection, this one featuring 195 hors-texte photographs and a few others, in vignettes in the text by Baschet, Petit, Piron, Nadar, Mulnier, Carjat, Fontaine, Bertall, Tourtin, giving, among others, portraits of A. Daudet, V. Hugo, J. Claretie, E. Rossini, J. Adam, F. Coppée, Ch. Gounod, E. About, A. Dumas père et fils, E. de Goncourt, F. de Lesseps, J. Janin, E. Renan, O. Feuillet, A. Thomas, A. Karr, E. Labiche, G. Sand, Ch. Garnier, P. de Koch, V. Sardou, E. Zola, T. de Banville, L. Pasteur, G. Eiffel, H. Malot, etc., among others. Stain to one binding, several photos detached. Photo of Baudelaire missing.