Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Tome I. 11e année - Deuxième période. Du 1er janvier 1869 au 1er juin 1869

First edition.
Half red shagreen binding, headcaps torn, some minor lacks to boards, spine with four raised bands gilt and blind-tooled, publisher's binding.
Contributions by Paul Mantz, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt ("Eisen"), Charles Blanc, Alfred Michiels, Henri Delaborde, Champfleury, Philippe Burty, Georges Duplessis and Paul Chéron among others, etching by Bracquemond, by Léonce Chabry
Review illustrated with numerous black and white plates.
The Gazette des beaux-arts is a French art review, founded in 1859 by Édouard Houssaye, with Charles Blanc as editor-in-chief; it ceased publication in 2002.
For nearly one hundred and fifty years it was a worldwide reference in art history.