Les mystères de Paris

First illustrated edition, partially original, published a few months after the exceedingly rare first edition.

Scattered foxing.

Full navy blue shagreen bindings, smooth spines, covers framed with a gilt fillet and a black fillet, white moiré silk endpapers and pastedowns, occasionally lightly soiled at the margins, all edges gilt. English-style pastiche romantic bindings, late 19th century.

Illustrated with numerous wood-engraved vignettes and 81 full-page plates engraved on wood (47 wood-engravings) and steel (34 steel-engravings) after the leading artists of the period, including Honoré Daumier, Célestin Nanteuil, Anthelme Trimolet, Gustave Staal...