Les Contemporains Célèbres. Album Lefèvre-Utile. Première Série Portraits. Autographs. Notices Biographiques Illustrées des Célébrités Contemporaines.
first edition Hardcover. Cloth spines. Wood boards. Slipcase
1904 · Paris
by Acker, Paul, writer of Portraits and Notices biographiques. Illustrations by Vogel. Ornamentation by d'Habert-Dys, Orazi and Fraikin.
Paris: Octave Beauchamp. Printer: G. de Malherbe, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Cloth spines. Wood boards. Slipcase. Near Fine. Folio, 33 by 26 cm. Unpaginated. With pieces on Victorien Sardou, Sarah Bernhardt, François Coppée, Mme Edmond Adam, Anatole France, Mme la Duchesse D'Uzès, Jules Lemaître, Mme Réjane, Jules Claretie, Mme Segond-Weber, Jean Richepin, Marthe Brandès, Coquelin Aîné, Jeanne Granier, Jules Massenet, Aïno Ackté, Mounet-Sully, Jane Hading, J-L.Gérôme, Jane Hatto, Antonin Mercié, Marie Delna, Luc-Olivier Merson, Sibyl-Sanderson, F.-A. Bartholdi, Mme. Carrère-Xanrof, Alfred Capus and la Reine Ranavalo. With each, following a title page, two pages of biography (a portrait page, and a note biographique page, the former being more impressionistic, seeking to convey something of the personages character, charisma, and basis for renown, and the latter, more a straightforward, concise biography. Also on a glossy leaf is a photograph, surrounded by chromolithographed Art Nouveau decoration, and a facsimile (holograph) inscription and autograph. Without extra Cappiello caricatures. The boards are of wood, with an inset medallions of Sarah Bernhardt in her role as "La Princesse Lointaine" after the illustration by Alphonse Mucha. With publisher's slipcase. Condition: Slipcase with moderate shelfwear. (Inventory #: 006161)