THE DRAMATIC WORLD Revue des spectacles anciens et modernes 1st series: Volume I, May 9, 1835-Tome VII, 1838; 2nd series: Volume I, 1839-Tome III, September 16, 1841. Paris, Founders: Gérard de Nerval and Anatole Bouchardy. Texts by Gérard de Nerval, Berlioz, Alexandre Dumas, Théophile Gautier, Roger de Beauvoir, Jules Janin, Jacques Arago, Alphonse Karr, Célestin Nanteuil, Gavarni, Henry Monnier, Napoléon Thomas, Louis Lassalle, Camille Rogier, Louis Boulanger, etc. Complete collection. 10 vol. in-4 bound (covers rubbed). Joined : In Volume I (1st series) : - 1 L.A.S. from Célestin Nanteuil (n.d.) concerning the review ; - 2 admission cards to Rossini's funeral (November 21, 1868) ; - Handwritten notes by Vasseur (4 ff.) ; - Copy of an article from La Quinzaine littéraire (October 1995) ; - 1 text by J. Guillaume, S.J. : " Nerval et Le Monde Dramatique, extracted from the review Les Études classiques, 1971. In Volume II (1st series): - 1 L.A.S. from Gérard de Nerval, signed G. Labrunie (n.d.), not related to the review; - 1 L.A.S. from Jenny Colon (May 6, 1838) to M. Fontenay, announcing that she is pregnant and that she is performing for the last time; - 1 portrait of Jenny Colon. Copy of J. Brivois with his handwritten notes signed on the flyleaves of Volume I: " - The 7 fashion plates of volume IX are there as well as the 25th and last issue of volume 10. Only the sheet 12 of volume IX and the table of contents of volume X are missing. - N.B. Naturally this copy does not contain the second semester of 1839 in-folio, of which the only known copy - and moreover incomplete - is in the Bibliothèque Nationale. - The announcement leaves of volume X not described by Vicaire are in the present copy. Pagination error: 314-320 instead of 322-328. - The portrait of Madame Dorval in the role of Catarina - by Célestin Nanteuil - is at the head of the volume. It is rare. And the portrait of Taglioni on p. 341 is also there." On the title page of Volume II (1st series): " The plate of Macbeth Act I Scene I (not indicated in the table) is there p. 88. It is rare." On the flyleaf of Volume IV (1st series) : " In addition to the engravings indicated in the table, there are : Fanny Elssler p. 97, L'Hôtel de Bourgogne p. 145, Les deux Familles p. 155. There are 2 different frontispieces." And on the title page of Volume II (2nd series): "Missing leaf 12 (pp. 177-192): it is missing in almost all copies, but the 7 (rare) fashion engravings are there in full (pp. 236, 270, 296, 348, 364, 396, 430). Opposite page 380: double plate of Daumier." Some foxing.