The Devil in Paris. Paris and the Parisians,... - Lot 332 - Crait + Müller

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The Devil in Paris. Paris and the Parisians,... - Lot 332 - Crait + Müller
The Devil in Paris. Paris and the Parisians, manners and customs, characters and portraits of the inhabitants of Paris, a complete picture of their private, public, political, artistic, literary, industrial life, etc. Text by Messrs. George Sand, P.-J. Stahl, Léon Gozlan, P. Pascal, Frédéric Soulié, Charles Nodier, Eugène Briffault, S. Lavalette, de Balzac, Taxile Delord, Alphonse Karr, Méry, A. Juncetis, Gérard de Nerval, Arsène Houssaye, Albert Aubert, Théophile Gautier, Alfred de Musset, Octave Feuillet, Frédéric Bérat, Eugène Sue, Henry Monnier, De Stendahl (sic) [...], preceded by a history and a geography of Paris by Théophile Lavallée Illustrations Les Gens de Paris, series of engravings with captions by Gavarni, Paris comique, vignettes by Bertall, views, monuments, particular buildings, famous places and main aspects of Paris by Champin, Bertrand, d'Aubigny, Français. Paris, Hetzel, 1845-1846. 2 volumes in-4, bound in full red morocco, boards richly decorated with a frame of scrolls, corner medallions showing Parisian figures and four medallions representing the Chamber of Deputies, the Vendôme column, the Obelisk of the Concorde and the Stock Exchange, all framing a large central medallion showing in volume 1 the devil landing in Paris and in volume 2 the devil sheltered under a house of cards, spine decorated with foliage framing a central medallion bearing the title and two small medallions showing a couple dancing the waltz and the Pavillon de Flore in the Louvre, edges decorated with a fillet, inner scroll, moiré endpapers, edges gilt - Spellings on boards, spinebands, corners, principally on the first plate of volume 2, first tailbone of T 2 slightly split, some scattered freckles, 1 plate. 2 ff.], XXXII, 380 pp; [2 ff.] LXXX, 364 pp, 1 frontispiece, 202 plates h-t by Gavarni and 4 by Bertyall out of the 211 announced, lacking the 5 h-t on page 184 of volume 2 (problematic existences, 3 - the sword, 1 - kicking, punching, 1). Complete with in-t. vignettes. First edition of Le Diable à Paris in a spectacular romantic binding decorated with ironwork related to the theme. This collection of physiologies, commissioned by Hetzel to compete with the "Français peints par eux-mêmes" published by Curmer, brings together the best of the Romantic generation for the texts and some of the best illustrators of the capital, led by Gavarni, for the illustrations. It gives a striking overview of the Parisian population in the middle of the 19th century, all backgrounds, all professions and all social classes combined.
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