Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Tome XVII. 6e année - Du 1er juillet 1864 au 1er décembre 1864

First edition.
Half red shagreen binding, boards stained, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt motifs, publisher's binding.
Contributions by Champfleury, Charles Blanc, Philippe Burty, Emile Galichon, Albert Jacquemart and Paul Chéron among others; etching by Jean Achard.
Review illustrated with numerous black and white 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 worldwide reference in art history.