LITERATURE - Lot 31

LITERATURE Approximately 63 assorted 18th- and 19th-century prints of portraits of famous poets and writers from the 17th to the 19th centuries, organized into about thirty files compiled in the 19th century and containing handwritten notes, newspaper articles, etc. Casimir-Delavigne, Guilbert de Pixérecourt, Armand Carrel, Émile Forgues, Asselineau, Musset, Hugo, Nodier, Boileau-Despreaux, Corneille, Gautier, Florian, Daunou, Rivière-Dufresny, Ducis, d’Arlincourt, Desnoyers, Dumas, Delvau, Desmoutiers, Bertin, Arago, Crébillon Jr., Féval, de Bainville, Chasles, Cogniard, Champfleury, Bayle, Fantin-Desodoards, Anquetil, Gilbert, de Girardin, Chapelle, Delille. A few foxing spots. A rare collection.