MUSÉE GRÉVIN. ~ Principaux Tableaux du Musée reproduits par la photographie. Première Serie et Deuxieme Serie.
Two volumes. Each with 12 original photographs pasted into pages printed with a blue border and a caption in blue type. Oblong 16mo., original printed paper covered boards differently printed with ‘Premiere Serie’ and ‘Deuxieme Serie’ on the spines. Spines a little rubbed but generally in very good condition.
The first two series of photographs souvenirs of the tableaux on show at the waxwork museum in boulevard Montmartre. It was founded in 1882 by Arthur Meyer on the model of Madame Tussauds and was named after its first director, the caricaturist Alfred Grévin.
The tableaux shown in the first series include the Java Kampong and a street in Cairo as they were shown in the Exposition Universelle in 1889, the Duc d’Orleans in the Conciergerie, Pasteur’s laboratory, the construction of the Eiffel Tower and a series of tableaux showing the history of of a crime from murder to execution.
The second series includes a tableaux of dancers at the Opera, a rehearsal at the Comedie Francaise, various famous figures including Halevy and the Pope and several scenes from the French Revolution.