Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) A Collector's Portfolio: 1903-1916. Time Life Books. New York, 1978. Portfolio with flaps (53 x 36 cm) in blue velvet, with title label, closed with two laces (one hinge of the portfolio is cracked). On one flap is a label stating the print run (our copy is no. 955), signed in J.H. Lartigue's hand. A color reproduction of an autochrome by J.H. Lartigue is inserted in a window on the portfolio's second cover. The portfolio contains a large 16-page booklet with 15 illustrations, a preface entitled "The Photographs of JH Lartigue" and a text by the photographer entitled "Portraits of All the Things I Lovingly Loved". The portfolio is complete with 10 original silver prints, 21 x 17.5 cm, numbered in the margin below the image and matted 42 x 33 cm with caption printed at the bottom of the mat and dry-stamped by the publisher. The set is complete with the publisher's cardboard shipping box with title label and gold pastille (shipping box soiled).