UZANNE (Octave). La Femme à Paris, Nos contemporaines,... Lot 325

UZANNE (Octave). La Femme à Paris, Nos contemporaines, notes successives sur les Parisiennes de ce temps dans leurs divers milieux, états et conditions. Paris, Ancienne maison Quantin, May & Motteroz, 1894. Large in-8, paperback, illustrated cover, untrimmed, laced silk folder (publisher's binding). First edition, with numerous illustrations by Pierre Vidal and a superb cover in printed colours by Léon Rudnicki. EXAMPLE ON JAPAN, preserved in its charming brocaded silk folder. Book 13 detached, spine broken in the middle of the volume. Silk of the folder a little worn on the edges, one corner folded.