Gil Blas, illustré hebdomadaire, du 4 juin 1893 au 28 juillet 1895

First edition.
Half brown cloth binding, marbled paper boards, corners slightly bumped, edges scuffed, headcap torn. Contemporary binding.
Each issue retains its four pages, some light marginal tears not touching the text, as well as some creases.
Contributions by Marcel Prévost ("Cousine Laura", "Grace!", "Au cabaret", "L'Abbé Pantalon", "Maxime"), Aristide Bruant (numerous songs), Georges Courteline ("Margot", "26", "Boubouroche", "La Pendule", "Exempt de cravate", "Je m'en fous", "Un mal de gorge", "Ferme ta malle !", "Premières armes", "L'Honneur des Brossarbourg", "Le Mauvais cocher", "Suggestion"), Jean Richepin (numerous poems, as well as prose texts: "Ch'tiote", "La Casquette", "Mimile"), Alphonse Daudet ("La Moisson au bord de la mer", "La Musique aux Champs"), Charles Baudelaire (posthumous publication of "Ciel Brouillé", "Moesta et Errabunda", "Le Jet d'eau", "Causerie", "Le Jour des Morts", "Don Juan aux Enfers", "Les Aveugles", "A une mendiante rousse", "Bohémiens en voyage", "L'Aube spirituelle", "Le Jeu", "A une passante"), Paul Verlaine ("Sagesse", "Sur l'herbe", "A la promenade", "La Chanson des Ingénues", "Mandoline", "Le Faune" "Cythère", "En sourdine", "Colombine"), François Coppée ("Rousse", "Brune"), Guy de Maupassant ("La Parure", "Le Champ d'oliviers", "Le Crime au Père Boniface", "Histoire d'une fille de ferme", "Littérature du gendarme", "La Dot"), Willy ("Francisque"), Barbey d'Aurevilly ("La Vengeance d'une femme", "Le Rideau cramoisi"), Alphonse Allais ("Le Langage des fleurs", "L'Absence profitable", "La Télégraphiste", "Bébert"), Emile Zola ("Pour une nuit d'amour", "Lourdes"), Jules Renard ("Oeuf de poule", "Poil de Carotte"), Maurice Leblanc ("Roméo et Juliette", "L'Elevage", "La Vierge"), Gyp ("Le Débutant"), Catulle Mendès ("Le Passe-pied"), Jean Lorrain ("Les Yeux du mort"), J.-H. Rosny ("Lacération", "Cabinets particuliers", "L'Immolation", "Le Funéraliste"), Mark Twain ("Concernant les femmes de chambre"), Théophile Gautier ("A une robe rose"), Sully-Prud'homme ("Les Vénus"), Anatole France ("Chronique napolitaine"), Edmond et Jules de Goncourt ("Le Passeur de Maguelone", "Le Père Thibaut"), Tristan Corbière ("Sainte Anne") among others; drawings by Steinlen, A. Guillaume, Paul Balluriau, Lourdey, Carl-Hap and Maurice Marais notably.
Illustrated journal with numerous color and black and white drawings, sometimes full-page or even double-page spreads, as well as musical scores.
Gil Blas was a former French weekly newspaper, founded by Auguste Dumont, which appeared from November 19, 1879 to August 4, 1914, then very occasionally from January 20, 1921 to March 1940. For a period, starting November 17, 1909, it was directed by Henri de Noussanne and Pierre de Maroussein. Gil Blas initially aimed to be literary. Great writers expressed themselves in chronicles that enjoyed great success: Guy de Maupassant (or Maufrigneuse) whose collaboration was the longest (1881-1888), Paul Arène, Émile Bergerat, Clovis Hugues, René Maizeroy, Jean Richepin, etc. Equally important were the serials, signed by Émile Zola, Hector Malot, Théodore de Banville, and Octave Mirbeau notably. For his part, Maupassant published "Une vie" (February-April 1883), "Bel Ami" (April-May 1885), "Mont-Oriol" (December 1886-February 1887), etc. Beyond these chronicles and serials, Zola defended some of his works in the newspaper, through "Lettres au Directeur" (on "le Rêve", November 8, 1888; on "la Bête humaine", November 13, 1889).