Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Tome XVI. 19e année - Deuxième période du 1er juillet 1877 au 1er décembre 1877

First edition.
Half red shagreen binding, corners slightly bumped, headcaps torn, spine with four raised bands gilt in blind, publisher's binding.
Contributions by Charles Blanc, Duranty, Ludovic Lalanne, Paul Mantz, Louis Gons, Champfleury and Paul Chéron among others; original etching by Paul Renouard notably.
Review illustrated with numerous black and white engravings hors-texte, notably an engraving representing Alexandre Dumas (see photo).
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 worldwide reference in art history.