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The volume assembles unpublished documents, correspondence, bibliographic notes and portrait reproductions related to Alfred de Musset, cataloguing existing likenesses, discussing their provenance, variants and reproducibility, and supplying facsimiles, descriptive captions and publisher information. It examines several pictorial types established during the subject's lifetime, compares engraved and painted versions, and notes rarities such as caricatures, childhood images and unique or refused plates. Practical publication details and edition variants accompany editorial commentary and transcriptions, offering a compact resource on the visual and documentary traces of the subject and his printed reception.
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