LA RÉPUBLIQUE DES LETTRES Monthly magazine, then weekly magazine 1st series (monthly): no. 1, December 20, 1875-no. 7, June 20, 1876; 2nd series (published every Sunday): Vol. I: no. 1, July 9, 1876-no. 12, September 24, 1876, Vol. II: no. 1, October 1, 1876-no. 12, December 17, 1876, Vol. III: no. 1, December 24, 1876-no. 12, March 11, 1877, Vol. IV: no. 1, March 28, 1877-no. 12, June 3, 1877. Paris, Alphonse Derenne, Éditeur, then Richard Lesclide, Éditeur, Editor-in-chief: Catulle Mendès, then Catulle Mendès and Adelphe Froger, Editorial secretary: Henry Laujol. Texts by Théodore de Banville, Paul Bourget, Léon Cladel, Jules Claretie, François Coppée, Alphonse Daudet, Gustave Flaubert, Anatole France, Albert Glatigny, de Goncourt, José-Maria de Heredia, Victor Hugo, J.-K. Huysmans, Lecomte de Lisle, Stéphane Mallarmé, Guy de Maupassant (under the signature of Guy de Palmont), Louis Ménard, Catulle Mendès, Germain Nouveau, Edgar Poe (translated by Mallarmé), Raoul Ponchon, Jean Richepin, Maurice Rollinat, Armand Silvestre, Sully Prudhomme, Ivan Tourguénieff, Gabriel Vicaire, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Émile Zola (pre-original of L'Assommoir), etc. Complete collection. 55 numbers in 55 issues in 5 in-8 vol. bound in slipcase (covers preserved). Handwritten notes by Vasseur (6 ff.). Jointly: In vol. 1 (1st series): - Photographs (Félix Potin collection) of : J.-K. Huysmans, Guy de Maupassant, Anatole France, George Sand, José-Maria de Heredia; - 1 photo of Lecomte de Lisle; - 1 carte de visite by Léon Cladel; - Pages from Bulletin du bibliophile (1924) giving a bibliography of La République des lettres; In vol. I (2nd series): - 1 photo of Émile Zola; - No. 112 of La Lune rousse (January 26, 1879); In vol. III (2nd series): - 1 photo of Émile Zola; In vol. IV (2nd series): - 1 photo of Camille Pelletan (Félix Potin collection); - 1 L.A.S. from Catulle Mendès to [Léon Cladel] (late June 1877). This magazine is very rare and complete.