Les voleurs, physiologie de leurs moeurs et de leur langage - Ouvrage qui dévoile les ruses de tous les fripons, et destiné à devenir le Vade mecum de tous les honnêtes gens

First edition.
Some light foxing. One hole affecting the text on page 395, the following leaf shows two repaired tears without loss.
Half black shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with triple gilt compartments, black embossed paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Illustrated work, as frontispiece to the first volume, with a portrait of Eugène-François Vidocq by Eugène Devéria.
Manuscript signature of Eugène-François Vidocq below his portrait.
Our copy is exceptionally enhanced with a precision and manuscript modifications on the title page: he added "de Paris" after his patronymic and embellished the title of the work with parentheses and lines underlining each printed sentence; the title on the half-title page is also underlined.
Rare.