Les chefs-d?uvre dart au Luxembourg/Sous la direction de E.Montrosier.

Paris: Librairie d"art, 1881. The album Creative Masterpieces of the Luxembourg Palace is a review of the exhibition of the works of contemporary French art underlied by the exposition of France at the Universal Exhibition of 1878. The book includes illustrative metarial (41 plates with photoengravings and numerous in-text illustrations), as well as essays on the history of the Luxembourg Palace and contemporary French art and poetic works dedicated to this romantic place in Paris. 297th copy of 300 enumerated copies. Card bindings pasted over with coloured paper, leather spine with raised bands stamped in gold in the form of vignettes. Coloured endpaper. Stamp of Moscow Province Central Library Verhaeren Department of Arts (on each plate as well). Bound in Grossman & Knobel workshop of Moscow, 32.5х45cm., in satisfactory condition: wear to covers, spine partly off the block, inventiry notes, minor soiling. In French. Book from N.Peshkova library. The edition is of artistic and collection value.