NADAR, PAUL, CARJAT, ÉTIENNE, and others Contemporary France. Illustrated, biographical album. Clément Deltour et Cie, Paris, 1903-1904. Three volumes in-folio (47 x 32,5 cm). Original editions, illustrated by Eugène Pirou, Adolphe Braun, Paul Nadar, Waléry, Alphonse Liébert, Studio Reutlinger, Étienne Carjat and others. Full cloth covers with gilt and embossed patterns, titled on the first cover. Works composed respectively of 67, 64 and 62 heliogravures, separated by serpents (portraits of Raymond Poincaré, Georges Feydeau, Eugène Carrière, Louis Lépine, Victorien Sardou, Sarah Bernhardt, Edmond Rostand, Gabriel Hanotaux, Emile Loubet, Joseph Ribot, Édouard Branly). Contributions from François Coppée, Jules Claretie, Jules Lemaitre, Robert Mitchell, Édouard Lockroy and others. Missing: two pages of text (volume 2), title page detached (volume 2); one page of text (volume 3).