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DUMAS, F[rancois].- G[uillaume]. (ed). Illustrated Biographies of Modern Artists Paris: Librairie D'Art, Ludovic Baschet, 1882. Folio (23 x 13”), four volumes. Limited Edition, number 431 of 1,200 copies. Four original green cloth portfolios, each containing three illustrated biographies of modern artists, each of which consists of several pages of biographical text with in-text illustrations, several prints of the artist’s works, and three magnificent folio-sized original etchings, one of which is an engraved portrait of the artist, and two of which are tissue-protected engravings from works of the artist; with printed tissue-guards. The artists included are: Josef Israels; Sir Frederick Leighton; John Everett Millais; Hubert Herkomer; Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema; Paul Jacques Aime Baudry; Adolf F. E. Menzel; Carl von Piloty; Hans Makart; James Clarke Hook; Alexandre Cabanel; and Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier. All of the original etchings are clean, bright, and fresh, edges sometimes worn but not affecting the illustrations. One of the fold-in cloth flaps is detached but present, and one of the portfolio title labels is missing. Quite scarce, particularly in this original format.