The Prisons of Paris. History, types, customs, mysteries. Illustrated edition.
Paris, Gustave Havard, 1846.
Large in-8, green half-maroquin with long grain and corners, spine decorated, untrimmed, illustrated covers preserved (A. Cuzin).
First edition and first printing.
35 engravings out of the text and woodcut vignettes in the text after Jules David, Bertall, Janet-Lange, E. de Beaumont, etc.
"Rare Romantic in fine condition and curiously illustrated" (Carteret, III, p. 506).
Well complete with the good cover, on green paper, illustrated with vignettes on both sides.
Illustrated prospectus bound in fine.
From the libraries of Antoine Vautier and C. G. (April 13, 2018, No. 3) with their bookplates and collation notes in pencil by their hands
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