Poèmes parisiens

First edition, abundantly illustrated by Charles Jouas with a frontispiece and in-text compositions, engraved on wood by H. Paillard. Unique edition limited to 138 numbered copies on China paper, No. 77. This edition was produced by the celebrated bibliophile and bibliographer Henri Beraldi who launched Charles Jouas's career with this publication.
Bradel binding in half tender green morocco with mosaic corners signed Charles Meunier at the top of the first endpaper. Smooth spine decorated with an iris on stem with its buds (flowers and buds in orange and brown mosaic). Separating fillets on the boards. Spine having uniformly turned to brown. One corner slightly bumped. Traces of rubbing to corners and edges. Very handsome copy.
Bookplate of Jacques Crépineau, director of the Michodière theatre and entertainment historian, renowned bibliophile for his collection of Romantics.
The volume gathers the poems about Paris by the first hydropath and brilliant practical joker Émile Goudeau (1849-1906), the last one entitled Bibliophilie and naturally addressed to Béraldi.
On October 11, 1878, Emile Goudeau founded the Cercle des Hydropathes where the bohemians of the time gathered, Goudeau would pay his members with the help of the "Green Fairy", absinthe.