first edition
1846 · Paris
by [Gavarni and others, illustrators]
Paris: J. Hetzel, 1846. First edition. Two large octavo volumes (10 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 263 x 175 mm.). Contemporary half black hard-grain morocco, ruled in gilt, over black morocco-grain paper over boards. Smooth spines decoratively tooled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt. Marbled edges and endpapers. Minor rubbing to extremities, head of spine of Volume II expertly and almost invisibly repaired, front hinge of Volume I cracked, but sound. Minimal foxing and soiling. Small area of surface abrasion to upper blank margin of plate Artistes, —6 facing page 160 in Volume II, where it was once adhered to the facing page. Bookplate (Bibliothèque de A. (truncated)