Authors:  Paul Acker, Hermann Vogel, J-A Habert-Dys, Manuel Orazi, Alexis Fraikin, Leonetto Cappiello, & Alphonse Mucha.

Publisher:  Octave Beauchamp, Paris, 1904

A lovely creation, with 28 photographs of fin-de-siecle celebrities with facsimile inscriptions and autographs, enhanced by Art Nouveau decoration by J-A Habert-Dys, Manuel Orazi and Alexis Fraikin. Biographical text by Paul Acker. Fourteen of the personages are also represented by chromolithograph caricatures after Leonetto Cappiello. Other portrait illustrations by Hermann Vogel. Please see image for list of celebrities covered. The decorated veneered wood cover has an inset portrait medallion of Sarah Bernhardt after Mucha. Decorative endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. In fine condition, covers fresh and unfaded, no foxing, marks or inscriptions internally.