Les Environs de Paris. Paysage, histoire, monuments, moeurs, chroniques et traditions. Ouvrage rédigé par l'élite de la littérature contemporaine, et illustré de 200 dessins par les artistes les plus distingués

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.