47 medallion portraits.

47 ff., 4to, loose (foxing, occ. marg. damp stains, mod. identifications in pencil in lower margins, one f. shorter).

Portraits engraved with the "procédé Collas", process to reproduce in relief sculpture and medals created in 1825 by the French engineer and engraver Achille Collas (1795-1859). Extracted from the work of Pierre-Jean David d'Angers "Collection de portraits des contemporains d'après les médaillons" published in Paris in 1838. Depicting Lady Morgan, Alphonse de Lamartine, Charles Nodier, Stendhal, Amelia Opie, Eugène Delacroix etc.