Salon Des Aquarellistes Francais; Years 1887-1888 [Annees 1-2]

Paris: Librairie Artistique. H. Launette Et Cie, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco, marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers. Teg. Very good. 2 vols. 160, 164 pages. 32.5 x 24.5 cm. Eighty eaux-fortes hors texte in heliogravure with lettered tissue guards engravings within the text in black, bistre and sanguine. Title pages with color vignettes. Artists include Emile Edan, Edouard de Beaumont, Jean Beraud, Boutet De Monvel. Benjamin Constantin, Lucien Gros, Eugene Isabey, Eugene Lami, Jean-Paul Laurens, Maurice Leloir, Charles Messonier, Adrian Moreau, James Tissot to name a few. Interior contents generally clean, slight extremity rubbing, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt. Light water stains to first few leaves of Volume I.