THE REALISTIC MAGAZINE Appearing every Saturday N° 1, April 5, 1879-N° 12, June 21, 1879. Paris, Deposit at Fenoux, Director : Vast-Ricouard [Raoul Vast and Gustave Ricouard], Secretary of the editorial staff : Paul Ginisty, Administrator : Derveaux. Texts by Edmond Benjamin, Marc Floréal, Pierre Giffard, Paul Ginisty, Gabriel Laffaille, Louis Livet, Maurice Montégut, Édouard Rod, Jean de St-Pierre, Vast-Ricouard, etc. Complete collection. 12 numbers in 12 issues in 1 vol. in-4 bound (covers preserved). Joint : - 1 L.A.S. from Pascal Pia (September 3, 1974). Copy of M. Bienvenu, editor of the Tintamarre. Fragile copy (acid paper). Founded by Raoul Vast (1850-1889) and Gustave Ricouard (1853-1887), La Revue Réaliste was the fighting organ of these two writers who proclaimed themselves the apostles of Realism. The program they formulated in the first issue opposed to romantic idealism the scientific method, in conformity, they said, with the intellectual needs of the day. And in the second issue they declared: "Naturalism is a system; Realism is a method. Let others take pleasure in the exclusive study of ugliness. On this path, we will not follow. (Cf. Les Cahiers naturalistes, n° 32, 1966, p. 138).