78/5152 Paris-Thèatre [continued as:] Paris-Portrait. Year 1-3 and 5-6. No. 1-142 and 209-345. Paris, 1873-1879, 5 vols., w. 277 (of 345) mounted woodbury type portraits of actors/ actresses, singers, librettists/ playwrights, statemen, artists etc., contemp. unif. gilt hcalf, folio.

- Lacks issues no. 143-208, 218 and 273; a few textpages sl. dam. Bindings rubbed/ sl. worn along extremities.

= Very rich photographic source of many of the famous public figures of 19th cent. France. Contains portraits of i.a. Sarah Bernhardt, Adelina Patti, Rosine Bloch, Jean Baptiste Prosper Bressant, Anna Judic, Charles Lecocq, Laurence Grivot, "les frères Lionnet", Emma Albani, Alfred Dieudonné, Léon Melchissedec, Charles Garnier, Ambroise Thomas, Charles Gounod, Hyacinthe, Lesueur, Erckmann-Chatrian, Alphonse Daudet, Ch.F. Daudet, Emile Zola, Alexandre Cabanel, Jules Grévy, Léon Gambetta, Ernest Renan, Fernand de Lesseps, Arsène Houssaye, Charles Lepère, Jules Massenet, Georges Sand. Some names of the photographers: Carjat, Dupont, Liebert, Nadar, Lemercier and Quinet. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVII.