76/1557 [Tissot, J.]. Goncourt, E. and J. Renée Mauperin. Paris, Charpentier et Cie, 1884, 379,(4)p., 10 full-p. etchings by JAMES TISSOT, printed in 550 numb. copies, later hcl., orig. wr. pres.

- Unnumb. copy. Corners bumped.

= Ray 275: "James-Jacques Tissot's "reputation as a painter is reflected in the enhanced standing of his etchings. He is remembered as an illustrator chiefly by his designs for this novel of French society which the Goncourts had written in 1864. His interest derived from the parallel which he discerned between the slow decline of its heroine and that of Kathleen Newton, the woman with whom he lived ."