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Le Diable a Paris. in 2 vols. Paris et les Parisiens. Mœurs et coutumes caractèes et portraits des habitants de Paris tableau complet de leur vie privée publique politique artistique littéraire industrielle etc. etc. Texte par MM. George dDe Balzac Taxile Delord Alphonse Karr Méry A. Juncetis Gérard de Nerval Arsène Houssaye Albert Aubert Théophile Gautier Octave Feuillet Alfred de Musset Frédéric Bérat précédé d'une Histoire de Paris par Théophile Lavallée. Illustrations Les Gens de Paris Séries de gravures avec légendes par Gavarni. Paris comique vignettes par Bertall. Vues monuments édifices particuliers lieux célèbres et principaux aspects de Paris par Champin Bertrand d'Aubigny Français

1846réf. 3650Paris: 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. Vautrain on front pastedown of each volume. Collating 4 xxxii 380; 4 lxxx 364. Wood- engraved title vignette in each volume 212 wood-engraved plates 208 after Gavarni and four after Bertall with tissue guards and numerous wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces vignettes and initials. This copy with a duplicate of the plate facing in Volume I. Music. Overall an excellent copy. "The book appeared in part-issues at the rate of one or two a week between April of 1843 and December of 1845. The major attraction of Le diable à Paris resides in Gavarni's plates which are of even greater interest than the 320 wood engravings of his Oeuvres choisies 207. The engraving is superior for the most part and they are new conceptions not versions of his lithographs. He limits himself almost entirely to single figures or pairs evoked with his usual concentration and psychological subtlety. He had a free hand with his subjects since his designs are quite unrelated to Hetzel's text. As usual he arranged them as series some of which those devoted to writers and politicians for example are largely unprecedented in his previous repertory. He invaded Daumier's world with success in the fifteen plates of 'Bourgeois' exampled in the self-satisfied worthy reproduced II 328" Ray. Hiler 237. J. Hetzel unknown

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