Librairies-Imprimeries réunies

First edition.
Bradel binding in half sienna cloth, smooth spine, dark chocolate brown shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, covers and spine preserved, contemporary binding.
Work illustrated with 300 black facsimiles as well as 12 color plates.
Cover illustrated with a drawing by Adolphe Willette.
Handsome copy.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Half cherry red sheep binding, spine with four raised bands with gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Work illustrated with numerous wood-engraved vignettes in the text.

First edition, one of four copies on grand japon imperial paper, deluxe printing, ours unnumbered. Illustrated with photographs by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont in heliotype.
Publisher's full cardboard chemise, blue-silver stamped decoration on front cover, endpapers with Japanese-style cloth motifs, corners slightly bumped, most ties missing, covers with light marginal stains.
Superb copy on japon paper of these tableaux of Parisian life during the Belle Époque, through the lens of Gervais Courtellemont, with commentary by Georges Montorgueil.