140 - [POSTERS]. THE MASTERS OF THE POSTER. A monthly publication featuring color reproductions of the finest illustrated posters by leading French and foreign artists. Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, December 1896–November 1900. Set of 48 folio installments, nos. 13 through 60 (the final issue), in loose sheets, with covers illustrated by Jules Chéret. Half-titles, titles, and prefaces for the four volumes are included at the beginning of issues 13, 25, 37, and 49; tables of contents appear at the end of issues 24, 36, 48, and 60. Foxing, minor soiling, browning, and marginal tears on a few plates. Water stains on the frontispieces of installments 28, 31, 34, and 37: angular with slight damage to the illustration in No. 28; a stain running across the plate in No. 31; marginal stains in No. 34; and a lateral stain touching the illustration in No. 37. More pronounced marginal tears, without damage to the illustrations, on plates 197 through 200, 204, 214, 218, and 219; a small missing section in the upper right corner of plate 216. Creases at the lower right corner of plates 99, 100, and 200, without affecting the illustrations. Stains in the lower margin of the “Numerical Table of Reproductions” in issue 60, without affecting the text. All issue covers are preserved, though often worn: tears, foxing, soiling, and missing sections; some repairs with adhesive tape. A SIGNIFICANT COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL EDITIONS SPANNING 4 YEARS [out of 5; the first year is missing] OF THIS IMPORTANT PUBLICATION DEDICATED TO THE POSTER ARTISTS OF THE BELLE ÉPOQUE. It includes 192 color lithographic PLATES, numbered 49 through 240, and 14 additional PLATES offered to subscribers, for a total of 206 PLATES, bearing the publisher’s embossed stamp. Compositions by Jules Chéret, Toulouse-Lautrec, Alphonse Mucha, Steinlen, Eugène Grasset, Maurice Denis, Félix Vallotton, Forain, Puvis de Chavannes, Rassenfosse, Georges de Feure, Paul Berthon, William Bradley, the Beggarstaffs, and Maxfield Parrish, among others. The 4 PLATES by TOULOUSE-LAUTREC included in these issues are all present: *La Revue Blanche* (No. 82), *Jane Avril* (No. 110), *Moulin Rouge – La Goulue* (No. 122), and *La Chaîne Simpson* (No. 238), as well as the 6 PLATES by Alphonse MUCHA: Salon des Cent – 20th Exhibition (No. 94), Lorenzaccio (No. 114), The Lady of the Camellias (No. 144), La Samaritaine (No. 166), Bières de la Meuse (No. 182), and Job (No. 202). A BEAUTIFUL COLLECTION of 206 PLATES—comprising the complete set of plates, including bonus plates, from the last four years of “Maîtres de l’Affiche,” plus 6 scattered plates from the first year (Nos. 19, 20, 22, 32, 36, and 46), for a TOTAL OF 212 PLATES. The complete five-year collection comprises 60 issues and 256 plates, including 16 bonus plates. ¶ Stanley Appelbaum, The Complete “Masters of the Poster”: All 256 Color Plates from “Les Maîtres de l’Affiche,” Dover Publications.

[POSTERS]. THE MASTERS OF THE POSTER. A monthly publication featuring color reproductions of the finest illustrated posters by leading French and foreign artists. Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, December 1896–November 1900. Set of 48 folio installments, nos. 13 through 60 (the final issue), in loose sheets, with covers illustrated by Jules Chéret. Half-titles, titles, and prefaces for the four volumes are included at the beginning of issues 13, 25, 37, and 49; tables of contents appear at the end of issues 24, 36, 48, and 60. Foxing, minor soiling, browning, and marginal tears on a few plates. Water stains on the frontispieces of installments 28, 31, 34, and 37: angular with slight damage to the illustration in No. 28; a stain running across the plate in No. 31; marginal stains in No. 34; and a lateral stain touching the illustration in No. 37. More pronounced marginal tears, without damage to the illustrations, on plates 197 through 200, 204, 214, 218, and 219; a small missing section in the upper right corner of plate 216. Creases at the lower right corner of plates 99, 100, and 200, without affecting the illustrations. Stains in the lower margin of the “Numerical Table of Reproductions” in issue 60, without affecting the text. All issue covers are preserved, though often worn: tears, foxing, soiling, and missing sections; some repairs with adhesive tape. A SIGNIFICANT COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL EDITIONS SPANNING 4 YEARS [out of 5; the first year is missing] OF THIS IMPORTANT PUBLICATION DEDICATED TO THE POSTER ARTISTS OF THE BELLE ÉPOQUE. It includes 192 color lithographic PLATES, numbered 49 through 240, and 14 additional PLATES offered to subscribers, for a total of 206 PLATES, bearing the publisher’s embossed stamp. Compositions by Jules Chéret, Toulouse-Lautrec, Alphonse Mucha, Steinlen, Eugène Grasset, Maurice Denis, Félix Vallotton, Forain, Puvis de Chavannes, Rassenfosse, Georges de Feure, Paul Berthon, William Bradley, the Beggarstaffs, and Maxfield Parrish, among others. The 4 PLATES by TOULOUSE-LAUTREC included in these issues are all present: *La Revue Blanche* (No. 82), *Jane Avril* (No. 110), *Moulin Rouge – La Goulue* (No. 122), and *La Chaîne Simpson* (No. 238), as well as the 6 PLATES by Alphonse MUCHA: Salon des Cent – 20th Exhibition (No. 94), Lorenzaccio (No. 114), The Lady of the Camellias (No. 144), La Samaritaine (No. 166), Bières de la Meuse (No. 182), and Job (No. 202). A BEAUTIFUL COLLECTION of 206 PLATES—comprising the complete set of plates, including bonus plates, from the last four years of “Maîtres de l’Affiche,” plus 6 scattered plates from the first year (Nos. 19, 20, 22, 32, 36, and 46), for a TOTAL OF 212 PLATES. The complete five-year collection comprises 60 issues and 256 plates, including 16 bonus plates. ¶ Stanley Appelbaum, The Complete “Masters of the Poster”: All 256 Color Plates from “Les Maîtres de l’Affiche,” Dover Publications. Expert: Eric Casteran