LA PETITE REVUE - Lot 103

LA PETITE REVUE Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Industries & Local History of Northern France, published every Sunday 1st year: no. 1, May 12, 1872-no. 34, December 29, 1872; 2nd year: no. 1, January 5, 1873-no. 52, December 28, 1873; 3rd year: no. 1, January 4, 1874-no. 52, December 27, 1874. Saint-Quentin, Librairie parisienne de Langlet, Éditeur. Texts by E. de Barthélémy, Albert Bosquette, Edgar Charles, Jules Claretie, Georges Davril, Charles Desmaze, A. Landier, Ad. Langlet, Ernest Lavisse, Georges Lecocq, Ernest Leroux, J. Malézieux, etc. 138 issues in 6 vol. in-8 paperbacks in general covers. Handwritten notes by Vasseur (1 f.). Joint: - 2 L.D.S. (one from the Bibliothèque de Saint-Quentin and the other from the Archives de l'Aisne). This magazine appeared in two parts, the second being entirely devoted to local history. Articles on Victor Hugo, Octave Feuillet, Louise Collet and Sainte-Beuve, Alfred de Musset, Alfred de Vigny, Lecomte de Lisle, Jules Claretie, Jules Janin, Arsène Houssaye, Champfleury, etc. In No. 52 of the 3rd year, it is stated that La Petite revue is temporarily ceasing publication, and that it will reappear at the same time as the Bibliothèque historique, archéologique et littéraire de la Picardie, of which it will be the indispensable complement.