La république des Lettres Revue hebdomadaire - Premier volume de la deuxième série ( 9 juillet - 24 septembre 1876) - Second volume de la deuxième série (1er octobre - 17 décembre 1876)

First edition.
Half brown shagreen binding, spine with 5 rubbed raised bands, rubbed headcaps, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns. L'Assommoir appeared in installments in la République des Lettres from April 1876 to January 1877.
Numerous collaborations by J.-K. Huysmans, José Maria de Heredia, Catulle Mendès, Anatole France, Théodore de Banville, Edgar Poe, Jean Prouvaire, François Coppée, Albert Glatigny, Léon Dierx, Leconte de Lisle, Victor Hugo, Léon Cladel, Jean Richepin, Stéphane Mallarmé, Maurice Rollinat, Richard Wagner, Maurice Bouchor, Villiers de Lisle Adam etc...
Emile Zola with L'assommoir, largely complete in our copy, appeared in installments in la République des Lettres from April 1876 to January 1877.
Copy almost entirely free of foxing. Very rare review bringing together the greatest pens of the Parnassian movement.