Album de la Pléiade

The Album de la Pléiade[1] is a book published every year in May by the "Bibliothèque de la Pléiade", a series of classic French and international texts by French publishing house éditions Gallimard.

[2] Featured authors are generally chosen upon their entry in the series or a major addition of their works.

Each album is richly illustrated and focusses on iconography, with an accompanying bibliographical text by a renowned specialist of the selected author.

It is produced in the same format, leather-bound cover and gold lettering as volumes of the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, but has generally fewer pages and is printed on thicker paper to allow the inclusion of many colour images.

[2] The older (1960s-1970s) books are also often high priced due to their rarity, even if the author is less popular.