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Honoré de BALZAC & Alphonse KARR

Le tiroir du diable

Chez Les principaux libraires, s.l. [Paris] 1850 S.d., Grd. in 8 (18x27cm), lxxx 357pp., relié.

First edition, richly illustrated 75 hors-texte, mainly Gavarni, 4 boards music framed woodcuts by Bertall and several compositions by Bertall. Numerous vignettes by Monnier, French, ... Daubigny compositions multitudes thumbnail Bertall on topics such as evenings at the opera, Paris at night ... which constitute the entire comic Paris are especially tasty. This edition is rarer than the Devil in Paris. Half green shagreen contemporary. Smooth back decorated with a series of romantic long irons. boards coirsillonné green paper. Rubbed edges and corners bumped. Few scattered spots, mainly in outer margins, a very white paper. The text jumps from p. 5) 41 without loss, the text continues. Good copy. Portrait of Paris, in all its glory at the beginning of the Second Empire, The drawer Devil vogue on the success of Devil in Paris with the same group for texts and illustrations. Note the presence of the text of Balzac: Physiology boulevards, two pieces of a Sand and Musset. Other employees being famous writers of this contemporary, Ourliac Edouard Frederic Soulie ... In early work, the text of the geography of Paris Lavallée (who was also present at the beginning of Devil Paris). Endnotes, statistics Paris, the book always wanting to be both entertaining and informative. In this regard, all text, satirical or not, the book is more or less journalistic, but as it was practiced journalism under the Second Empire. The book ends with statistics Paris. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information!

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