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‎Panthéon des Illustrations Françaises au XIXe Siècle comprenant un portrait, une biographie et un autographe de chacun des hommes les plus marquants dans L'Administration, Les Arts, L'Armée, Le Barreau, Le Clergé... la Politique, Les Sciences...,‎

‎"14. Paris, Abel Pilon éditeur, Lemercier Imprimeur, 1865-1866, 6 volumes in-folio, 39 x 28 cm, each volume contains a title, an index, 40 full page lithograph portraits with on separate pages a short biography of the portrayed person and a fac-simile of his handwriting. In all 240 portraits with over 500 pages of text and 240 fac-similes. Bound in 6 uniform volumes, contemporary red half morocco, large gilt title on frontcover, raised gilt back, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, some wear at extremities, some rubbing at joints, some slight soiling but in all still a fine set. All the lithographs are printed by Lemercier on very fine chinapaper mounted on rather thick paper. (The mount of about 30 portraits is browned but the portraits themselves are untouched, some facsimiles are browned or sligthly foxed but on the whole a rather fine set with none of the portraits foxed or soiled .The index of volume 5 is supplied in contemporary manuscript.) Extraodinary series of portraits of leading figures in 19th century French society. The lithographs are of the highest quality and very lively and resembling. This follows from the fact that the lithographs were made from photographs by the most famous photographers; e.g. Pierre Petit, Meyer et Pierson, Bisson, Nadar, Carjat, Trinquart...10 years later this art of portrait lithography had completely gone. It was for ever replaced by photography and its reproduction methods. Some of the portrayed; Napoleon III , Auber, Emile de Girardin, Guizot, Baron Haussmann, Ingres, Littré, Michelet, Thierry ; Alphonse Karr, Louis Pasteur, Ernest Renan, Jules Simon, Thiers, Alfred Velpeau ; Berlioz, Rosa Bonheur, Alexandre Dumas Fils, Ferdinand de Lesseps ; Cabanel, Corot, Delisle, Dumas Père, Isabey, Nisard ; Chenu, Gustave Courbet, Flandrin, Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Victorien Sardou, Béranger ; Boussingault, Daubigny, Dupanloup, Proudhon, George Sand...."‎