Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Tome III. 12e année - Deuxième période. Du 1er janvier 1870 au 1er juin 1870

First edition.
Half red shagreen binding, headcaps damaged, some minor lacks to boards without consequence, spine with four raised bands gilt in blind, publisher's binding.
Contributions by Emile Galichon, Charles Clément, Philippe Burty, Henri Delaborde, Alfred Michiels, Champfleury, Charles Blanc, Paul Mantz, Georges Duplessis and Paul Chéron among others; fine etching by Bracquemond.
Review illustrated with numerous black and white plates, as well as one folding plate (see photograph).
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.