Goupil & Cie was a leading art dealership in 19th-century France, with headquarters in Paris. Step by step, Goupil established a worldwide trade in fine art reproductions of paintings and sculptures, with a network of branches and agents in London, Brussels, The Hague, Berlin and Vienna, as well as in New York City and Australia.  Antonin Proust was French minister of fine arts from 1881 to 1882.

102 pp. 4to.  Rare Holland edition: limited to 75 copies of which this is #56.  Text and engravings on Holland paper.  100 photogravure plates and one watercolour facsimile. Red cloth with gilt title and design on spine and cover.  Deckle edges bottom and side.  Water damage at top right corner of rear board, has bled to top edge of last 15 pages.  See photos.