GAVARNI (Paul)
The Devil in Paris. Paris and Parisians. Mœurs et coutumes, characters and portraits of the inhabitants of Paris, a complete picture of private, public, political, artistic, literary, industrial, etc. life.
Paris, Hetzel, 1845-1846. 2 large in-8 bound volumes, large margins, 280 x 185 mm, illustrated covers, folders and slipcases. First edition and first print run of a Romantic publication as important literarily as graphically. Unpublished works by George Sand, P. J. Stahl (J. Hetzel), Léon Gozlan, Frédéric Soulié, Théophile Gautier, Alfred de Musset, Honoré de Balzac ("I wrote for 3000 fr. of very funny tales" to Mme Hanska). A frontispiece and 211 non-text plates engraved after Gavarni (208) and Bertall (4), and very many woodcut vignettes in the text, of which there are about 800. Superb preserved paperback copy with the illustrated covers in perfect condition, which Carteret announces as "extremely rare" and reproduces p. 204-205.
Large copy with margins, untrimmed, in very good condition.
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