Album Boileau de 23 Eaux Fortes; d'apres les tableaux de Cabanal Bonnat Ch DeLort Fr. Flameng Gerome Vilbert etc. etc.

Paris: Np, 1891. leather_bound. Full black morocco. Aeg. Near fine. Unpaginated. 32.5 x 25 cm. Original watercolor title page by J. Ostolle, text lettered in gilt. Twenty three full page etchings with lettered tissue guards by French academic painters. Frontispiece by Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard with additional full page contributions by Alexander Cabanel, Leon Bonnat, Charles De Lort, Francoise Flameng, Jean-Leon Gerome, Jehan Georges Vibert et al. Leon Bonnat won a medal of honour in Paris in 1869, going on to become one of the leading artists of his day. Bonnat went on to win the Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and became a professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1882. OCLC data:Boileau: ce volume contient de nombreuses reproductions de la Bibliothèque nationale. Author: Morillot, Paul. Paris : Lecène, Oudin et cie, 1891. Bound by P. Ruban, raised bands, spine panels lettered in gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, slight nicks to corners.