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L'Image--Revue artistique et litteraire ornée de figures sur bois [No. 12 (December 1897)]

Cover designed by: Marcel Lenoir (French, 1872–1931)
Cover designed by: Albert Carl-Angst (Swiss, born in 1875, active in France)
Illustrated by: Jacques Beltrand (French, 1874–1977)
Illustrated by: Henri Bellery-Desfontaines (French, 1867–1910)
Illustrated by: Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904)
Illustrated by: Georges de Feure (French, 1868–1928)
Illustrated by: Auguste Gérardin (French, born in 1849)
Illustrated by: Charles Huard (French, 1875–1965)
Illustrated by: Luc Olivier Merson (French, 1846–1920)
Illustrated by: Paul Renouard (French, 1845–1924)
Illustrated by: Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Illustrated by: Georges Bertin Scott (French, born in 1873)
Illustrated by: Armand Seguin (French, 1869–1904)
Engraved by: Alfred Andrin (French, 19th century)
Engraved by: Clemént Bellenger (French, 1851–1898)
Engraved by: Fernand Bellenger (French, 19th century)
Engraved by: Adolf Dauvergne (French, active 1889–1924)
Engraved by: Eugène Dété (French, 1848–1922)
Engraved by: Georges-Joseph Dupré (French, active late 19th century)
Engraved by: Eugène Froment (French, 1844–1926)
Engraved by: Victor Gaudon (French, active late 19th–early 20th century)
Engraved by: Jules Germain (French, active 1897–1943)
Engraved by: Imbault (French, active late 19th century)
Engraved by: Marius-Bernard Labat (French, active late 19th century)
Engraved by: Paul Leyat (French, active late 19th–early 20th century)
Engraved by: Charles Marx (French, active late 19th century)
Engraved by: Auguste Mathieu (French, born in 1866)
Engraved by: G. Outhwaite (French, active late 19th century)
Engraved by: Jules Léon Perrichon (French, 1866–1946)
Engraved by: Pouilliart (French, active late 19th century)
Engraved by: Poulizac (French, active late 19th century)
Engraved by: César Romagnoli (Italian, active in France, died in 1918)
Engraved by: Charles Smachtens (French, active late 19th century)
Engraved by: Georges Auguste Thévenin (French, active late 19th century)
Engraved by: Auguste Tilly (French, died in 1898)
Engraved by: Jean Julien Tinayre (French, 1859–1923)
Publisher: Floury [firm]
Publisher: Corporation Française des Graveurs sur Bois (French, founded in 1896)
French
1897
Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated journal with numerous wood engravings and woodcuts
Dimensions Overall: 30.6 x 23.1 x 0.5 cm (12 1/16 x 9 1/8 x 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Samuel Glaser
Accession Number1971.765L
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Paris: Floury, 1897

Catalogue Raisonné Ray, French Illustrated Book, 321; Field, et al., Seguin, cat. 92
Description(Paris: Floury, 1897) Quarto; [3 ff.] 32 pp., plus plates (wrappers for binding collected set loosely laid in); original publisher's pictorial wrappers, within original publisher's black-stamped gray cloth portfolio.

Illustrated journal published from December 1896 to December 1897 in twelve issues (November 1897 not included). Edited by Jules Rais and Roger Marx, with the artistic direction by Lepère and others. The cover of this issue was engraved after a design by Lenoir; the wrappers (with a design by Angst) for binding the collected edition are loosely laid in. Announced as the last issue, it also contains a full index of writer, artists, and engravers. The table of contents indicates only that this is the 12th and last "number"; the first page of the text is labeled November, with the wrapper dated December. Several engravers could not be identified: André, Minne, Paris, and Robillard.

MFA owns two other copies of L'Image: BR503, 37.2563.
Provenance1971, year-end gift of Samuel Glaser, Newton, MA to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 12, 1972)