VÉRON, Louis. ~ Paris en 1860. Les théâtres de Paris depuis 1806 jusqu’en 1860 … Illustré de 15 dessins par Bourdelin. Paris: Librairie nouvelle … A. Boudilliat et Cie 1860.
12mo (183 × 116 mm) in sixes, pp. [4], 147, 3, plus final blank; with 15 wood-engraved full-page illustrations; a few spots; uncut in the original printed wrappers, a little dust-soiled; ink stamp (‘Seine: colportage’) to half-title.
First edition: a survey of the city in 1860 (its buildings and infrastructure, ),with long sections on the Asile impérial de Vincennes, founded in 1855 for convalescent workers, the Maison Eugène-Napoléon, a school for poor girls set up in 1858, and the history of Paris’s theatres after Napoleon limited the number of theatres in the city to twelve, then eight.
Vicaire V, 1021.
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