Les Rues de Paris - 2 VOLUMES by Lurine, Louis - Collective - 1844: Paris ancien et moderne

Beautifull original cloth first edition. Hardcovers with deep blue backgrounds and artistic blindstamp frames. Superb gilt and polychrome decoration on both boards and on the spine. All edges gilt. Text block including 21 wood-engraved plates and numerous wood-engraved illustrations by famous drawers like Daumier, Nanteuil, Jules David, etc. Contributors were relevant personalities of that time like Lurine, Briffault, Jules Janin, Le Roux de Lincy., etc. VOLUME I. Language: French. Pages: 396. Printing: Typographie de Wittersheim, Paris. Boards are in very good conditions but corners are frayed. Hinges have small crackings at the head and the tail of the front board and at the head of the backboard. Spine cloth is partially detached at the head and the tail. Text block: gutters are cracked and frontispice and title page are partially detached. Abundant foxing all over the book but without affecting the reading. Browning of the pages, mainly at the edges. Despite in need of some doctoring it is a very attractive and interesting edition. VOLUME II Language: French. Pages: 411. Printing: Typographie de Wittersheim, Paris. Boards are in very good conditions but corners are frayed. Hinge with the front board is cracked along most of it from the bottom and also at the head. Hinge with the back boards is cracked at the head and the tail. Spine cloth is partially detached at the head and the tail. Text block: gutters are cracked. Abundant foxing all over the book but without affecting the reading. Browning of the pages, mainly at the edges. Despite in need of some doctoring it is a very attractive and interesting edition. Price displayed is for the 2 volumes. Shipping is INCLUDED in the price for EU (European Union) and Switzerland. Weight of the 2 volumes: 1.900,0 Grs.