Galerie Francaise, ou Collection de Portraits des Hommes et des Femmes qui ont Illustre la France, Dans les XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe Siecles. Avec des Notices et des Facsimile. Precedee D'une Introduction qui Comprendra les Principaux Evenemens qui se Sont Passes Depuis Merovoe Jusqu'a Louis XII. Par une Societe D'Hommes de Lettres et D'Artistes. Tome 1, 2 & 3

Paris: Imprimerie de Firmin Didot, Imprimeur du Roi, 1823. Hardcover. VG (corners and edges dinged and bumped, light shelfwear to boards, pages have light age toning and some foxing spots as expected with age but text and plates are otherwise clear with tight binding.). Three volume set bound in half blue leather and green and black marble boards, four raised bands on spines, gilt lettering and tooling on spines; decorative end papers. Volume 1 has a bw frontispiece with descriptive letterpress leaflet, viii, 288 pp, illustrated throughout in 30 facsimiles and 62 bw plates with protective tissue guards. Volume 2: bw frontispiece with protective tissue guard; 598 pp with 43 facsimiles and 55 bw plates with protective tissue guards. Volume 3: bw frontispiece with protective tissue guard; 622 pp, bw facsimiles and plates throughout. A three volume set with text in French. A 4th volume was published several years later. A collection of portraits of men and women in France in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Preceded by an "introduction that will include the main events that happened from Mèrovóe to Louis XII. By a society of men of letters and artists." Original rare edition of this set.