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An extensive, unbroken run of 48 issues of the French antiquarian bookseller catalogue Bulletin Mensuel, beginning with no. 1 (1876) through no. 48 (1899) (it ceased publication under this title after no. 59, 1904); 1000s of pages bound in nine volumes, as follows: 3 vols.: 8vo, quarter patterned brown cloth, marbled sides, black leather labels with gilt title, single gray upper and lower wrapper, partially unopened, illustrated; 5 vols.: 8vo, gray buckram, brown leather labels with gilt title, wrappers for each issue, illustrated (a few fold-out, some printed in red and black); 1 vol.: 8vo, half vellum, dark green cloth sides, marbled endpapers, burgundy leather label with gilt title on spine, upper wrappers bound in; occasional plates and illustrations. A generally well-preserved, overall fine/near-fine set; some age-toning at the text block edges; some wrappers show mild foxing; minor chipping to the spine heads of earliest volumes; a touch of fading to some of the spines of the gray volumes, a few leaves lightly creased. Bookseller and publisher Damascène Morgand (1840-1898) bought out the M. E. Caen firm in 1875 to establish Morgand et Fatout with Charles Fatout (d. 1882). In 1878, Edouard Rahir (1862-1924), a bibliographer and publisher, joined Morgand et Fatout and took over its management in 1897, shortly before Morgand's death. This Morgand Fatout Rahir succession of antiquarian booksellers was among the most prominent during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A rare, superb run of this important bookseller catalogue, offering a total of 37,667 titles, many with detailed descriptions. The first 13 issues (1876-81) cover 7,880 titles, followed by Publications de la librairie Morgand et Fatout (1881) announcements; an index follows issue no. 8. Notably, that issue includes 7 exquisite color plates (with tissue guards) produced using photogravure and chromolithographic processes, and their appearance is considered the earliest use of color plates in a bookseller catalogue (according to Roland Folter). The next 30 issues (nos. 14-43, 1883-98) cover title nos. 7,881-32,084, with an index after nos. 19 and 24; and issues 44-48 (1898-99) cover nos. 32,085-37,667, with a portrait of Morgand accompanying a notice of his death, plus an index. Seller Inventory # 2488
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