La Perdition de la Bièvre. by MITHOUARD, Adrien.

Small 8vo (169 × 108 mm), pp. 33, [3]; marks at head of p. 5, a few spots elsewhere; uncut in the original printed wrappers.

First edition. ‘Cet ouvrage a été tiré sur papier de Hollande Van Gelder à 244 exemplaires numérotés à la presse’, this being no. 203. It is also been inscribed by Mithouard (1864–1919), an essayist and poet, ‘A mon ami Désiré Ferry’ (1886–1940), a writer and publisher who fought in both Wars and served as Minister of Marine and then Health in the 1930s.
The Bièvre is Paris’s second river and flows into the Seine near the Ile de la Cité, but due to various flooding incidents was culverted during the nineteenth century, as alluded to in the title of the present work.