BOOK OF 400 AUTHORS (Le): short stories, tales, travels, legends, criticism, history, theatre. Paris, at the offices of the Magasin des familles, 1850. Large in-8, paperback, publisher's illustrated cover. Unique edition of this rare and little-known work. Numerous illustrations in the text by Bertall, Nadar, Pauquet, Beaumont, Célestin Nanteuil, etc., and a group portrait of Victor Hugo Viennet, Scribe and Alphonse Karr printed outside the text with a tinted background. Paperback copy in 112 pp. Complete copies of 288 pp. are extremely rare. Spine split, a few scattered brown spots.