Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

GAVARNI. –. Le Diable à Paris – Paris et les Parisiens – Moeurs et coutumes, caractères et portraits des habitants de Paris, tableau complet de leur vie privée, publique, politique, artistique, littéraire, industrielle etc. [...] précédé d’une histoire de Paris par Théophile Lavallée. 2 vols.

With frontispiece, 99 and 108 plates „Gens de Paris“ by Gavarni, 4 more plates by Bertall in vol. II, and with c. 800 illus. in the text. XXXII, 380 pp., 4 leaves publisher’s advertisements; LXXX, 364 pp. 4to. Later red gained half morocco over 5 raised bands, spine and top edges gilt. Orig. wood-engr. illus. wrappers of both volumes bound in and with preserved gilt-ornated brown cloth of the publisher’s binding in both vollumes. – Paris, J. Hetzel, 1845–1846.

Edition originale. With orig. signed drawing by Gavarni, dated 1840 and pasted-in on frontispiece verso in vol. I, showing the head of a man with broad collar. The binding by Raparlier, signed. Textes by George Sand, P.-J. Stahl, Leon Gozlan, P. Pascal, Frédéric Soulié, Charles Nodier, Eugène Brifault, S. Lavalette, Balzac, Taxile Delord, Alphonse Jarr, Méry, A. Jungetis, Gérard de Nerval, Arsène Houssaye, Albert Aubert, Théophile Gautier, Octave Feuillet, Alfred de Musset, Frédéric Bérat. – Sander 232; Vicaire III, 241–244; Brivois 125–128. – Occasional slight foxing in places, generally clean. Outer hinges partly cracking, still firm. – Best.-Nr. 22345