Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Tome XXIV. 10e année - Deuxième période du 1er janvier 1868 au 1er juin 1868

First edition.
Half red shagreen binding, corners slightly bumped, split headcaps, boards worn and stained, minor lacks, spine with four raised bands stamped in blind, publisher's binding.
Contributions by Charles Blanc ("Ingres, sa vie et ses oeuvres"), Paul Mantz, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt ("Gravelot") among others; several facsimiles by Eugène Delacroix and Goya.
Review illustrated with numerous black and white hors-texte engravings.
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.