‎LESCLIDE Richard ( rédacteur en chef ) - Frédéric RAGAMEY ( directeur des Eaux-Fortes ) :‎
‎Paris à l'Eau-Forte. Actualité - Curiosité - Fantaisie. Premier Volume -> Quatrième Volume (the first 68 issues bound in 4 vols.)‎

‎ Paris, R. Lesclide, rue Lafayette, Hôtel du Petit-Journal, 4 vols, large in-8°, 27,3 x 19 cm, bound in uniform half roan, gilt title on spine. Binding with some slight traces of use, interior fine and stainless. Available are the issues 1 (Mars 1873) -> issue 68 (26 juillet 1874). Complete with all the engravings, with at the end of each volume the index ( texts and engravings). Fine tête de collection of this Parisian periodical published by Richard Lesclide ( 1825 - 1892) also publisher of e.g. Le vélocipède Illustré, Le Ballon Poste ( siege Paris 1870). He was secretary to Victor Hugo for 10 years. The engravings were mainly by the hand of Frédéric Régamey ( 1849 - 1925). Other engravers such as Jules Adeline , Félix Buhot, Cattelain, Félix Oudart, De Neuville....and many others were also contributors.Subscription to the periodical was 40 Fr. per year. This type of illustrated periodical ( extremely expensive and complicated to publish) reached a total of 187 issues and ended in 1877. It was almost certainly driven out of the market with the rise of good photographic reproduction. Paris à l'Eau-Forte remains a unique example of an illustrated periodical , witness of the cultural vitality and creativity in Paris after the horrible year 1870. See at length : 'Michael Pakenham - Paris à L'Eau-Forte de Richard Lesclide in Pierre Laforgue ( éd.) - Pratiques d'écritures. Mélanges de Poétique et d'Histoire littéraire offerts à Jean Gaudon, coll. ''Bibliothèque du XX e Siècle'' Paris, Klincksieck, 1996 , pp. 65-79.‎

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