Revue Anecdotique Des Lettres et des Arts. Premier semestre 1856

First edition.
Half red shagreen binding with corners, spine with 5 raised bands decorated with double blind compartments, double blind fillets framing the boards, small coat of arms at center of boards, top edge gilt, upper corners slightly bumped, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, bookplate pasted to verso of front board. Minor lack at head of one board. Occasional foxing.
Numerous articles and free chronicles on contemporary events and artists, notably Balzac, Champfleury, Courbet, Dumas, Goncourt, Hugo, Lamartine, Nadar, Nerval, Nodier, Stendhal, Vigny, Wagner...
The articles being mostly anonymous, contributions to this rare review are difficult to attribute. It is known that Baudelaire participated, his hand having already been recognized in several articles from 1862.
General table of contents for the first nine volumes at beginning of work.
Handsome copy.
Rare semester of this review which will be renamed, anecdotal review of contemporary eccentricities and will be taken over in 1962 by Poulet Malassis.