Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Tome XIX. 21e année - Deuxième période du 1er janvier 1879 au 1er juin 1879

First edition.
Half red shagreen binding, headcaps torn, spine with four raised bands gilt and blind-tooled (with some lacks), publisher's binding.
Contributions by Charles Blanc, Charles Yriarte, Louis Gonse, Anatole de Montaiglon, Champfleury, Duranty, Ludovic Lalanne, Paul Mantz and Paul Chéron among others; original etching by Joseph Israëls among others.
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.