La Vie Populaire : année 1891 complète

First edition of this bi-weekly illustrated magazine publishing in serial form either unpublished works or previously published texts by the most illustrious authors of this fin de siècle period.
Half cherry red shagreen bindings, spines with five raised bands decorated with blind fillets with minor traces of rubbing, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, illustrated front covers preserved, contemporary bindings.
Rich literary contributions including those of G. de Maupassant, P. Verlaine, H. Ibsen, J. Lorrain, A. Daudet with notably the complete serial publication of "Port-Tarascon", H. Malot with an unpublished novel "Anie", A. Villiers de l'Isle Adam, A. France, T. de Banville, J. Richepin, E. Zola with the complete serial publication of "L'argent", P. Loti with "Suleima", G. Courteline, E. de Goncourt, Papus, G. Rodenbach, Leconte de Lisle, C. Cros...
Pictorial contributions by A. Rodin, J.P. Laurens, J.L. Forain, J.F. Raffaëlli...
Handsome and rare set despite some minor foxing of no consequence.