Paris: Ducher et Cie, 1876-1881. In eight volumes. First edition. 8vo (volumes 1 and 2), folio (volumes 3-8). Illustrated with 75 plates, some chromolithographic, plus a frontispiece portrait of Garnier, and 115 mounted photos by Louis-Émile Durandelle. Ex-library with book-plates on paste-downs, perforated and ink stamps to all title-pages and some text; perforated stamps to all plates. Full brown library-style buckram binding (volumes one and two bound in three-quarter brown leather over tan buckram), variously worn, spines starting to detach to volumes one through three, boards detaching from text block of volume three, front board of volume three starting, tape repairs to spines of volumes one and two; plates one, two, and six in volume three partially separated; text and plates variously toned and occasionally foxed, chipped; scattered small closed tears. .