Revue de L'Exposition Generale de Bruxelles: 20 Planches Gravees ou Lithographiees par les Meilleurs Artistes du Pays, Accompagnees de 20 Feuilles de Texte
Bruxelles (Brussels), Belgium: Imprimerie et Lithographie des Beaux-Arts, 1851. Hardcover. Original maroon paper with gilt lettering, re-bound inside marbleized paper over boards with red leather spine and gilt spine lettering. 168 pp. and 20 plates; decorative end papers. VG, clean and tight. Item #139220
Text in French. Published in installments, as the title page specifies two deliveries a week at 1 franc per delivery. The first section details the Palais de L'Exposition, where the event was held. Subsequent sections cover generalities and statistics about the exhibition, followed by sections on specific artists and genres, beginning with Section VI. Included are Louis Gallait, Leon Cogniet, M. Courbet, M. Dekeyser, history of painging, the portrait, sculpture an much more. There are 20 plates, as issued, but two listed in the index (Nos. 16 and 17) are not included, and two different ones are. This may have been a last-minute change on the printer or publisher's part.
Price: $700.00