Notes sur une ville. Nuits à Paris … Illustrées de…

18mo (168 × 108 mm) in eights and fours, pp. 269, [7] advertisements; illustrations in the text; leaves a little toned; uncut in old quarter cloth, preserving the original illustrated wrappers, bookplate (‘HS’) to verso of initial blank.

First edition: Paris by night, as described by Darzens (1865–1938) and depicted by Adolphe Willette (1857–1926), an artist who worked on the Moulin Rouge cabaret, focusing on Montmartre and around, with chapters on, as one might expect, the Folies-Bergère etc, but also subjects such as roller coasters and night-time printing. Vicaire III, 27.