DIAGHILEV ENTERPRISE / BALLETS RUSSES - Maurice & Jacques de BRUNOFF (publishers). Collection des plus beaux numéros de Comoedia Illustré et des Programmes consacrés aux Ballets & Galas Russes depuis le début à Paris 1909-1921. Paris: M. de Brunoff, [1922]. Large 4to (330 x 255 mm) Paris, (1909-21). Folio. Silk over bevelled boards. Front board with a splendid large inset color lithographic illustration (from "The Firebird" by Natalia Gontcharova) (fig 1). Profusely illustrated in colour (some pochoir) and in black/white throughout. A very nice copy of this magnificent book. 4 pp., being title-page (fig2) and note from the editors +1909: 2 pp. introduction + 1909 Saison Russe - Opera et Ballet: 10 pp., including a cover illustration by Bakst (fig 3) +1910: 3 pp. introduction + cover illustration of Comoedia Illustré no. 18 (June 15, 1910) with portrait of Catherine Gheltzer (fig 4) + Comoedia Illustré special issue - supplement to no. 18: 14 pp., including two cover illustrations by Bakst (fig5) +1911: 2 pp. introduction + Programme Officiel des Ballets Russes. Théâtre du Châtelet. June 1911: the extra gold embellished transparent paper covers + 34 pp., including cover illustration by Bakst (Nijinsky in La Péri) (fig 6) and another eight illustrations by Bakst (costume designs for Narcisse and Dieu Bleu (fig 7) and stage design for Narcisse) + 10 pp. from the sixth season of the Ballets Russes at Chatelet, with costumes by Jean Cocteau (fig 8) + 10 pp. on "Petrouchka" and "Schérezade" + "Le Carnaval" + 1 leaf of text introducing "Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien": 12 pp. from Comoedia Illutré devoted to this, including a cover illustration by Bakst (showing Ida Rubinstein as St. Sebastien) (fig 9) +1912: 2 pp. introduction + Comoedia Illustré 7th season: 16 pp. devoted mainly to "Dieu Bleu" and "Daphnis et Chloé", including cover illustration by Bakst (fig 10) and a further five illustrations by Bakst (costume designs, decor and scene) + 5 pp. from Comoedia Illustré on "Le Dieu Bleu" + 1 p. being the illustrated cover for the June 1912 special issue of Comoedia Illustré, showing Karsavina and Bolm in Thamar (costumes by Bakst) (fig 11) + 8 pp. on "Thamar", "Petrouchka", and "Scherezade", including the 4 pp. spread on "Scherezade" which contains illustrations of Bakst's nine costumes + two covers mounted back-to-back from the special issue of the seventh season of the Ballets Russes, showing Bakst's illustration of Nijinsky in "L'Après-Midi d'un Faune" 9 (fig 12) + 8 pp. on "L'Apres Midi di Faune" + 10 pp. from Comoedia Illustré on "Le Carnaval", "Daphnis et Chloé" + 2 pp. ("title-page" for Ida Rubinstein in "Hélène de Sparte" and Salomé) + special issue on "Hélène de Sparte": 16 pp., including cover illustration by Bakst (of Ida Rubinsein as Helen) and a further five costume and scenic designs by Bakst + 6 pp. from Comoedia Illustré on Helen of Sparta + 4 pp. from Comoedia Illustré on Oscar Wilde's "Salomé" + 20 pp. including illustrations by Bakst for "Boris Godounoff", text on and illustrations for "Jeux", "Sacre du Printemps", "Kowanchina", and "Daphnis et Chloé" +1913: 2 pp. introduction + Eighth Season of Ballets Russes: 6 pp., including cover illustration of Schollar, Nijinsky, and Karsavina in "Jeux" by Valentine Gross (fig 14)+ 1 p. ("title-page" for Ida Rubinstein in "La Pisanelle ou la Mort Parfumée" with costumes by Bakst + Comoedia Illustré No. 18, June 1913: 17 pp., including cover illustration of Ida Rubinstein in "La Pisanelle, in couture by Worth, decor by Bakst (fig15), etc. +1914: 2 pp. introduction + 28 pp. on the Ballets Russes 1914-season, including a full-page illustration of Kousnetzoff in costume by Bakst (fig 16), costume designs for "La Légende de Joseph" by Bakst (fig 17), and a two-page costume-spread for "Rossignol" by Benois + 2 pp. on "Le Rossignol" by Maurice Ravel" + 4 pp. from Ballets Russes on "Le Coq d'Or" (fig 18) + 2 pp. on "Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilew" by Calvocoressi + 1915: 1 p. introduction +1917: 1 p. introduction + the special issue of "programme des Ballets Russes", 1917: 26 pp (cover by Picasso) (fig 19) programmes 1920 ("Tricorne" - fig 20) and 1921 ("Le Chout") - fig 21