TWO ALBUMS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE HUMAN FORM FOR USE BY ARTISTS, [PARIS, C. 1860S-80S]

[IGOUT, Louis] "Album d'études - Poses". (Paris: A. Calvalas, c.1 880), 4to (337 x 225mm.), 39 albumen prints (208 x 135mm.), showing a total of 624 figure studies (each photograph showing 16 subjects), mounted on card, recto only, with publisher's name printed at foot of each mount, nineteenth-century red cloth-backed marbled boards, flat spine titled in gilt, mounts slightly bowed, light spotting and browning, minor stains, spine slightly worn, corners rubbed[?IGOUT, Louis] "Album d'études - Poses". [Paris, c. 1863],  oblong 4to (227 x 317mm.), 22 albumen prints (135 x 185mm.), showing a total of 176 figure studies (each photograph showing 8 subjects), mounted on card, recto only, nineteenth-century red cloth-backed marbled boards, flat spine titled in gilt, [Alfred Cappelli, blindstamp and ink inscription on final free endpaper, with the artist's name and address ("3 Rue Gaveau"), price paid ("50.F."), and dated 1863], slight spotting to endpapers, slight toning to mounts, corners and edges rubbed

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