La vie des boulevards Madeleine-Bastille

First edition illustrated with 200 color drawings by Pierre Vidal. Limited to 700 numbered copies, No. 294. Original illustrated covers and spine preserved. Printed on tinted coated vellum.
Modern chocolate half morocco Bradel binding with corners. Jansenist spine with 4 raised bands. Leaf 49 with censoring in lower margin (a hole with paper rubbing). Spine faded on the first 2 compartments. Good copy.

Through various chapters representing boulevard life, the large and small shops, coachmen and carriages, cafés and restaurants, foreigners on the boulevard, boulevard women, theaters, petites Cythères, Place de la République, the boulevard du crime, the Bastille, onlookers and foreign tourists, street vendors and rogues, elegant ladies and matrons, dives and upscale restaurants, we find in Montorgueil's style the descriptions of Paris from the time of "Les Français peints par eux-mêmes" and other romantic monographs on Paris.