Balades dans Paris. Au Moulin de la Galette. – A l'hôtel Drouot. – Sur les quais. – Au Luxembourg Société d'édition des bibliophiles contemporains, Paris 1894, 20,5 x 26 cm, full shagreen
First edition printed in 180 numbered copies on tinted vellum and illustrated with color floral frames by Alexandre Lunois, 4 etchings by A. Bertrand, as well as decorations and culs-de-lampe by Martin, our copy was printed especially for Louis Bourdery.
Full brown shagreen binding, spine in four compartments set with gilt floral borders and adorned with double gilt compartments ornamented with gilt typographical motifs, gilt roll-tooling on the spine-ends, frame of five fillets and a gilt floral garland on the decorated boards, in the spandrels, gilt floral motifs, marbled endpapers, gilt floral motifs on the endpaper corners, preserved illustrated covers, gilt borders to the upper and lower leading edges, contemporary binding.
A beautiful piece, dedicated to late 19
th century Parisian life, designed by Octave Uzanne.