LE MONDE DRAMATIQUE - Lot 30

LE MONDE DRAMATIQUE Revue des spectacles anciens et modernes 1st series: Tome I, May 9, 1835-Tome VII, 1838; 2nd series: Tome I, 1839-Tome III, September 16, 1841. Paris, Founders: Gérard de Nerval and Anatole Bouchardy. Texts by Gérard de Nerval, Berlioz, Alexandre Dumas, Théophile Gautier, Roger de Beauvoir, Jules Janin, Jacques Arago, Alphonse Karr, Célestin Nanteuil, Gavarni, Henry Monnier, Napoléon Thomas, Louis Lassalle, Camille Rogier, Louis Boulanger, etc. Complete collection. 10 vol. in-4 bound (covers rubbed). Attached: To Volume I (1st series): - 1 L.A.S. from Célestin Nanteuil (n.d.) relating to the review; - 2 admission cards to Rossini's funeral (November 21, 1868); - Handwritten notes by Vasseur (4 ff.); - Copy of an article from La Quinzaine littéraire (October 1995); - 1 text by J. Guillaume, S.J.: "Nerval et Le Monde Dramatique," from the review Les Études classiques, 1971. In Volume II (1st series): - 1 L.A.S. from Gérard de Nerval, signed G. Labrunie (n.d.), unrelated to the review; - 1 L.A.S. from Jenny Colon (May 6, 1838) to M. Fontenay, announcing that she is pregnant and playing for the last time; - 1 portrait of Jenny Colon. Copy by J. Brivois with his handwritten notes signed on the flyleaf of Volume I: "- The 7 fashion plates of Volume IX are there, as well as the 25th and last issue of Volume 10. Only sheet 12 of Volume IX and the table of contents of Volume X are missing. - N.B. Naturally, this copy does not contain the second half of 1839 in-folio, the only known copy of which - and incomplete - is in the Bibliothèque Nationale. - The advertisement leaves for volume X not described by Vicaire can be found in the present copy. Pagination error: 314-320 instead of 322-328. - The portrait of Madame Dorval as Catarina - by Célestin Nanteuil - is at the head of the volume. It is rare. And Taglioni's portrait on p. 341 is also there. "On the flyleaf of Volume II (1st series): "The plate from Macbeth Act I Scene I (not indicated in the table) is on p. 88. It is rare. "On the flyleaf of Volume IV (1st series): "In addition to the engravings listed in the table, there are : Fanny Elssler p. 97, L'Hôtel de Bourgogne p. 145, Les deux Familles p. 155. There are 2 different frontispieces. "And on the title page of Volume II (2nd series): "Missing leaf 12 (pp. 177-192): it is missing from almost all copies, but the 7 (rare) fashion engravings are complete (pp. 236, 270, 296, 348, 364, 396, 430). Opposite page 380: double plate by Daumier. "Some foxing.