Léonide Bourges (1838-1909 )Daubigny. Memories and Sketches. Etchings by Léonide Bourges. Preface by Roger-Milès. [s.l.]. 1893-1894. An Italian album [370 x 275], in sheets, containing 33 etched subjects. Beautiful proofs on laid paper, some printed in blue or with the effect. Slight foxing or soiling. All margins. Beige vellum portfolio of the edition decorated with an engraving in blue on the 1st plate (restored, lined). Joint: The Little Sheep Park. Pencil drawing after an etching by Daubigny (1846, Delteil 55), on vellum [360 x 233], annotated below the subject. Léonide Bourges was a pupil of Théodore Frédéric Salmon, Pierre-Édouard Frère and Charles-François Daubigny, who became her friend - as Roger-Milès says in his engraved preface: "You resurrect with infinite spirit and art the figure of the incomparable master whose favourite pupil you were...". She herself practiced plein air painting, under the influence of Corot, and frequented the circle of friends who met in the evening at the Café de la Station, run by Patois in Auvers-sur-Oise before 1860. She settled in this town in 1874 and died there in 1909.