Art & Poetry

One of 100 copies of the magazine printed on China paper for issues 1 to 11. The specimen issue and no. 12 are on laid paper. Our copy is complete with the spine and covers of the general binding, and the twelve illustrated covers.
First edition of the complete collection of L'image, published between 1896 and 1897.
All issues of the magazine are bound together under a half sheep binding with corners, spine with five raised bands titled in gilt, marbled paper boards. Some rubbing.
Scattered foxing and marginal tears.
Complete copy of this magazine founded by the young French corporation of wood engravers, and published by the publisher of Toulouse-Lautrec's lithographs (Au pied du Sinaï, Histoires naturelles, Café-Concert).

First edition.
Fifth complete year.
Full olive green cloth binding, smooth spine lightly browned decorated with blind fillets, gilt title and date, corners very lightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Review decorated with black and white illustrations, vignettes and tailpieces.
Principal contributors: Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Renée Vivien, Léon Bocquet, Paul Fort, René Ghil, Gustave Kahn, Albert Mockel, Charles Morice, Léon de Rosny, Albert Samain, Emile Verhaeren, Louis Pergaud, among others.
The final issue, number 50, is devoted to a questionnaire containing 102 responses from poets and writers to the following questions:
If to complete the Goncourt Academy and following its model, a well-endowed man were to establish an independent academy of poets:
1-Who would be, in your opinion, the ten new immortals to elect? (Women are admitted as well as French poets from Belgium.)
2-To which volume of verse published this year would you award the prize?
Handsome copy.