Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Tome VII. 15e année - Deuxième période du 1er juillet 1873 au 1er décembre 1873

First edition.
Half red shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt ornament, publisher's binding.
Contributions by Louis Gonse, Sully Prudhomme ("Quelques oeuvres décoratives inédites"), Alfred Darcel, Albert Jacquemart, Champfleury and Paul Chéron among others.
Review illustrated with numerous black and white hors-texte engravings.
La 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 world reference in art history.