Alphonse Piaget, Paris, 1881-1888
7 vols. complete. Large 8vo (29x20 cm). Original illustrated wrappers, in colours (dust-soiled and browned, spines partly broken and a bit damaged). ( Quires partly loosening). Uncut. Good set, carefully printed on nice glazed paper in red and black (titles and subtitles), plates and illustrations in text, partly in colours. With many full-page plates in text and 123 plates not included in the pagination, partly on special thick paper, made in different techniques: zincographies, heliogravures, lithographies, and typographies partly in colours, and original, pasted in, photographs. - Complete run of 7 years of this attractive periodical, hard to find together. (Dans BnF: 2 années disponibles).