Album-lyrique: biographique illustrae de cinquante compositeurs et musiciens

[Early Photography]. Lallier, Justin. Album-lyrique: biographique illustrae de cinquante compositeurs et musiciens par Justin Lallier, Membre de plusieurs Societes savantes, Auteur des Album Timbres-Poste et Contemporain et du Plan de Paris - 1867. Photographies par Trinquart. Paris: Chez les Libraires et Papetiers, [ca. 1867]. Only edition. No U.S. Locations except on microfilm (Getty).

Oblong quarto (16 x 24 cm). Original maroon cloth, gilt design on upper cover, binding slightly rubbed, slight staining, but a very good copy. Complete with 51 oval shaped, albumen photographs (each 3 by 2.5 cm) mounted on 39pps. Each portrait with (truncated) biographical note. The photographer Antoine Rene Trinquart (31, place Cadet, Paris) worked 1859-1962 with Pierre Petit (23, rue Louis Legrand, Paris), under the sign "La photographie des deux mondes."

The following composers are photographed from life: Clapisson, David, Gounod, Halevy, Kastner, Masse, Meyerbeer, Rossini, Thomas, Verdi, Marietta Alboni, Marie Cabel, Capoul, Carvalho-Miolan, Cico, Delle-Sedie, Damoreau, Duprez, Falcon, Fraschini, Galli-Marie, Gardoni, Grisi, Krauss, Lablache, Mario, Michot, Montaubry, Naudin, Nicolini, Nilsson, Nourrit, Adelina Patti, Carlotta Patti, Penco, Roger, Sass, Viardot, and Zuchini. Album-lyrique also prints a number of other portraits after paintings: Auber, Beethoven, Boieldieu, Cherubini, Chopin, Gretry, Haydn, Herold, Mendelssohn-Bartoldy, Mozart, Weber, and Malibran. (Inventory #: 0431)