Gavarni ; Sand, George ; Stahl, P.-J. ; Gozlan, Léon ; Nodie - Lot 145

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Gavarni ; Sand, George ; Stahl, P.-J. ; Gozlan, Léon ; Nodie - Lot 145
Gavarni ; Sand, George ; Stahl, P.-J. ; Gozlan, Léon ; Nodier, Charles ; Balzac... # Le diable à Paris - Paris et les Parisiens - Moeurs et coutumes, caractères et portraits des habitants de Paris, tableau complet de leur vie privée, publique, politique, artistique, littéraire, industrielle, etc, etc. Two volumes. Ill. by Gavarni. Paris, J. Hetzel. 1845; 1846. XXXII + 380pp; LXXX + 364pp. Large in-8. Original endpapers. Publisher's green (vol. 1) and black (vol. 2) percaline boards. Top boards decorated with scrolls with compartments at the corners and at the 4 cardinal points, those at the corners decorated with characters from the book, those in the center decorated with monuments of Paris, special central iron representing the devil carrying his hood (vol. 1) and the devil seated under a house of cards (vol. 2), in a frame decorated with flowers, second board decorated in the same way but without the frame; smooth spine adorned with compartments at the top and at the bottom containing respectively a character and a monument, oval-shaped central frame containing the title. Gilt edges. Copies of the first edition in perfect condition. Volume I includes, in fine, the Hetzel catalog of 1845 which is often missing. Works almost free of foxing. Ex-Libris of Pierre Desmottes.
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