GAZETTE DE CHAMPFLEURY Appearing the 1st of each month No. 1, November 1, 1856-No. 2, December 1, 1856. Paris, Blanchard, Bookseller-Publisher. Complete collection. 2 issues in-16 bound in slipcase. Handwritten notes by Vasseur (7 ff.). Joint : - Portrait of Champfleury after Gustave Courbet engraved by Bracquemont ; - 1 L.A.S. from Champfleury (January 13, 1872) addressed to a collector who collected romances from 1827 to 1832. Very nice condition. Rare. Magazine entirely written by Champfleury, publishing in each issue a piece of criticism, a tale and a gazette of the month: "This Gazette is intended to take the defense of literature rather than of my literature. No consideration will make me lessen what I believe to be useful, for I would then be no more than a journalist such as comes out from under every pavement in Paris, I would not need to found the Revue de Champfleury, and I would go and sit at the newspaper table. [...] "