CONTEMPORARY GALLERYcontemporary French illustrations . Paul de Lacroix, Publisher, Paris, s.d. (c. 1890 ). In-4 (35,5 x 28,5 cm). Original editions in eight volumes. Numerous illustrations in and out of text. Tabbed photoglypties. Numerous personnalités : Ferdinand de Lesseps, Léon Gambetta, Alphonse Daudet, Thiers, Claude Bernard, Louis Pasteur, Georges Clémenceau, Théodore de Banville, Pierre Loti, George Sand, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Gustave Eiffel... The snack of this series is different each time and no series is the same as another. Our series does not propose the portrait of Baudelaire by Carjat. Half red saddleback binding with period corners. Spine decorated with five nerves and gilt title. Scattered freckles and some defects.