[SELMERSHEIM, Pierre]. La Société du Diner des cinquante. 1862-1905. [Paris], Frazier-Soye, 1905. Large in-4, interesting volume illustrated with 30 plates reproducing phototypes of the engravings announcing the Diner des Cinquante, notably by Gaucherel, Galland, Gaillard, Lavastre, Hügelin, Toussaint, Titeux and Lameire. Accompanied by songs sung at the Cinquante dinner and a list of members from its creation in 1862 to February 1905. Named Société du dîner de six francs in 1862, the Société du dîner des Cinquante was renamed in 1870. It brought together personalities from the world of the arts, notably architects, whose dinners were held at Champeaux, place de la Bourse, then at Brébant, then at Restaurant Millon and finally at Café de la Paix and Pavillon Ledoyen. Personal copy of the painter Henri-Paul Royer. Fully mounted on tabs. Bound in red half-maroquin with corners, 5-ribbed spine. (rubbing and traces of wetness to binding). Joint : L'Image. Monthly literary and artistic magazine with woodcut figures. Paris, Floury, July 1897. Number 8 only, notably illustrated by Laboureur and Puvis de Chavannes. (cover split and detached). Expert : Nicolas Asvisio