Colour Plate & Illustrated
DOLLET, LACAUCHIE & L. LASALLE.
Galerie Dramatique Costumes des Theatres de Paris.
Maison Martinet- Hautecoeur Freres, Paris, 1844. 7 vols (of 10), tall 8vo, 696 handcoloured lithographed plates (numbered to 700, but 499, 500, 600 & 700 never published), some folding, the plates signed by Dollet, Lacauchie & L. Lasalle, some very faint spotting, but overall a very good, clean, bright set. Original publishers cloth, spines faded.
Colas states that this was a continuation of Petite Galerie Dramatique and was in its turn replaced by Nouvelle Galerie Dramatique. The only copy to come up at auction was the Kochno copy in Monaco in 1991 with Vols 1-5 only. Colas 1159; Rahir 530.
Price: £ 10000
US Dollar Price: $ 15030
Stock Number: 48265