Louis LURINE

First edition, illustrated with 44 wood-engraved plates and numerous wood-engraved vignettes in the text (the title page announcing 300 drawings) after Nanteuil, Gavarni... A handsome Romantic illustrated work. 2 frontispieces, the first by Nanteuil, the second by Edouard de Beaumont.
Contemporary half dark green shagreen binding. Spine with flat false raised bands decorated with compartmentalized Romantic tools, gilt and blind fillets. Boards rubbed, corners turned over and bumped. Light scattered foxing. A good copy, with attractive decorative spines.
Historical texts on the streets of Paris by Jules Janin, Eugène Briffault, Louis Huart... under the direction of Lurine. The work traces the history of certain streets of Paris, squares, districts... the most famous of the capital.

New edition with some parts in first edition as revised and completed by Jules Janin for the text and expanded with numerous tailpieces and headpieces by Grandville for the illustration. A bibliography of books illustrated by Grandville/
Later half red sheep binding (ca 1920), Jansenist spine with raised bands, small traces of rubbing on the slightly faded spine. Set of beautiful freshness, but some pale browning in the margins at the beginning of the work. The preserved cover restored with a strip of paper to be restored. Inversion of leaves at the beginning of the work, leaf 3 appearing before leaf 1.
Handsome copy.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece and 70 hand-colored plates outside the text as well as numerous tailpieces and headpieces. This work had previously appeared in black and white.
Text by Louis Lurine, Charles Monselet, Albéric Second, Louis Huart...
A notice by Charles Blanc on Grandville.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece by Nanteuil and 27 hors-texte wood-engraved plates and numerous in-text vignettes after de Beaumont, Brugnon, Baron, de Moraine, Jules David, Nanteuil, etc. The texts are by Nodier, Lurine, Etienne Arago, Touchard-Lafosse, E. Marco de Saint-Hilaire, Jules Janin, Jules Sandeau, etc.
Half glazed blue calf. Smooth spine with multiple roulette tools. Some rubbing to spine and 2 corners slightly bumped. Some occasional very pale foxing. Rather good copy. Montmartre, Saint-Denis, Versailles, Senlis, Melun, Compiègne, Mantes, Anet... Typical Romantic illustrated work, with its wood engravings and picturesque, whimsical illustration.