Eaux-Fortes de Jules de Goncourt. Notice et Catalogue de Philippe Burty.

Paris.: Librairie de l'Art / Charles Delagrave., 1876.. Loose as issued, later cloth-backed portfolio with flaps and cloth ties, titles to front cover in red and black.. Folio. (470 x 325 mm).. Half-title in red and black, printed title in red and black with large engraved vignette by de Goncourt, nine leaves with Burty's text illustrated with 11 monochrome vignettes and plates (three full-page), ten leaves with 'Catalogue de l'Oeuvre de Jules de Goncourt' with monochrome vignette tail-piece, leaf with 'Index des Eaux-Fortes' recto and 'Liste des Bois' verso, leaf with printer's monochrome vignette, final leaf with justification recto and 20 original monochrome etchings by de Goncourt, each printed recto only on uncut sheets of Hollande; sheet size: c.440 x 310 mm or the reverse. Philippe Burty's catalogue raisonné of Jules de Goncourt's etchings.From the edition limited to 300 numbered copies, with this one of 200 examples with the text on papier teinté and the plates on Hollande.The catalogue raisonné of Jules de Goncourt's engraved work with a biography by Philippe Burty. The catalogue lists 86 examples, listing their states, dimensions and sources (where applicable). The catalogue gives printed examples of 20 of them, ranging from the vignette title engraving, 'Le Pantin de Mademoiselle Marcille', to etchings after Fragonard, de Saint-Aubin, Chardin, Monnier and Gavarni (among others) as well as those original compositions described as 'd'après nature'. The plates were printed in an edition of 302 copies by François Lienard including 2 on peau de vélin.