Galerie Dramatique: Vol. 7: Costumes des Theatres de Paris
by Alexandre Lacauchie
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- Seller
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
Volume 7 only of the 10-volume collection of stage portraits from the mid-19th century.
Title page with vignette and 83 (of 100) handcoloured lithographic plates of actors, opera singers and ballet dancers in costume of their roles by Alexandre Lacauchie, Victor Dollet and Louis Lassalle, lithographed by Decan and Destouches, Paris.
Includes the famous Italian ballerinas Fanny Cerrito and Caroline Rosati, French dancer Marie Guy-Stephan, actress Mlle. Alphonsine, soprano Marie-Charlotte Lemercier, and many more mid-century stars.
Missing plates 601 603 606 607 609 614 619 625 637 638 670 671 674 675 681 697 and 700.
The series was published from 1844-1870 in 10 volumes with 1,000 plates.
Condition: Half red buckram split on the gutter, marble boards scuffed, but plates bright and vivid with fine handcolour, a few slightly spotted.
Considered to be the most important French artists gallery of the 19th century.
Alexandre Lacauchie (1814-1886) was a French painter, engraver and lithographer. Jean Francois Victor Dollet (1815-??) was a French painter, lithographer and printmaker. Louis-Simon Cabaillot-Lassalle (1808-1885) was a French painter.
Title page with vignette and 83 (of 100) handcoloured lithographic plates of actors, opera singers and ballet dancers in costume of their roles by Alexandre Lacauchie, Victor Dollet and Louis Lassalle, lithographed by Decan and Destouches, Paris.
Includes the famous Italian ballerinas Fanny Cerrito and Caroline Rosati, French dancer Marie Guy-Stephan, actress Mlle. Alphonsine, soprano Marie-Charlotte Lemercier, and many more mid-century stars.
Missing plates 601 603 606 607 609 614 619 625 637 638 670 671 674 675 681 697 and 700.
The series was published from 1844-1870 in 10 volumes with 1,000 plates.
Condition: Half red buckram split on the gutter, marble boards scuffed, but plates bright and vivid with fine handcolour, a few slightly spotted.
Considered to be the most important French artists gallery of the 19th century.
Alexandre Lacauchie (1814-1886) was a French painter, engraver and lithographer. Jean Francois Victor Dollet (1815-??) was a French painter, lithographer and printmaker. Louis-Simon Cabaillot-Lassalle (1808-1885) was a French painter.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Florilegius (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Flo139
- Title
- Galerie Dramatique: Vol. 7
- Author
- Alexandre Lacauchie
- Illustrator
- Alexandre Lacauchie, Victor Dollet, Louis Lassalle
- Format/Binding
- Half red buckram and marbled boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Maison Martinet
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1852
- Size
- Octavo, 27 x 18cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- illustrated, theatre, costume, Paris, Galerie Dramatique, 19th century, Lacauchie
- Bookseller catalogs
- Theatre;
Terms of Sale
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Florilegius
Biblio member since 2019
Tokyo, Tokyo
About Florilegius
Tokyo-based bookseller specializing in European illustrated books from the 18th to 19th century, mainly botanical, zoological, costume and travel. Also Japanese ukiyo-e and woodblock botanicals, flower arrangement, etc.
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