[BEAUX-ARTS]. Album Boetzel. Masterpieces of contemporary art. In Paris, Adolphe Delahays and Alliance des arts, s.d. Oblong folio, canard-green half-chagrin, spine with false nerves framed and highlighted in cold, gilded fleurons on the entrenerfs, filleting in cold on the boards. Contemporary binding. 3 ff. (title, list of engravings, introduction) and 50 plates of black and white engravings, title vignette engraved by Pannemaker after the drawing "Amours d'artistes" by Léopold Flameng, ornamented initials in the text. Minor rubbing with slight loss to headpieces, covers slightly scratched and soiled. Very fine album by M.E. Boetzel, reproducing 50 masterpieces of contemporary art engraved by Ansseau, Bertrand, Boetzel, Duhamel, Froment, Gauchard, Hildibrandt, Hotelin, Joliet, Langeval, Laplante, Martin, Pannemaker, Perrichon, Thomas, Yon. Each plate is signed and captioned. The book opens with an introduction by Ernest Hache. A fine copy of this vast collection of masterpieces finely reproduced by the finest engravers.