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LE ROUX, Hugues (1860-1925). Les Jeux du Cirque et la Vie Foraine. Paris: Librarie Plon, [1889]. 4to. Pochoir-colored illustrations by Jules Garnier. Publisher’s grey cloth stamped in gilt and green; all pages edges gilt (rubbing to head and base of spine, bumping to boards). Includes images of various circus promoters such as P.T. Barnum, acrobats, and tattooed performers. Considered to be the most successful collaboration between Le Roux and Garnier, the illustrations contained therein were procured from circus playbills and from photographs specially taken for the publication by Service Photographique de la Salpetriere. Toole Stott, Circus and Allied Arts, 445.