L'Illustration Magazine France Leather Bound Back Issues, includes numerous color illustrations and black and white photographs, topics culverted range form war and politics to current events to fashion to art, boards show scuffing/rubbing/worn at edge, some tipped in color illustration loose This title started as a weekly French newspaper and ran from 1843 to 1944. It was the first illustrated French newspaper and then the first illustrated French magazine once it changed format, plus the first such publication to feature colored illustration. It featured the works of famous French writers, photographers and artists such as Alfonse Mucha. The magazine was shut down in 1944 following the Liberation of Paris. Measures about 12 x 15" Pre-owned, good condition, see notes above, big, heavy, stately volumes showing a bit of wear We have several volumes all listed separately, some but not all of the volumes we have listed have a bookplate from the Chateau de Rosny. From Wikipedia: "The Chateau de Rosny-sur-Seine is a chateau in the Louis XIII style, situated in Rosny-sur-Seine in Yvelines, on the left bank of the Seine, at a short driving distance from Paris by the road to Rouen. It is famous as the seat of Maximilien de Bethune, duc de Sully, who retired to the old chateau to heal from his wounds at the battle of Ivry, 1590, and constructed the present building on old foundations in the closing years of the 16th century." We store our items in a smoke free warehouse