DOUCET, Jérôme. ~ Les petits métiers de Paris. Société d’éditions littéraires et artistiques. Paris: Librairie Paul Ollendorff, [c.1900].
8vo (223 × 139 mm), pp. [6], 93, [1]; printed in various colours, numerous photographic illustration in the text; top edge gilt, the others uncut; contemporary quarter roan, spine lettered gilt, preserving the original printed wrappers, old stamp on front wrapper sometime effaced; modern bookplate.
First edition of a charming illustrated guide by the bibliophile journalist–photographer Jérôme Doucet (1865–1957) to the various ‘little trades’ plied on the streets of turn-of-the-century Paris, from tram rail cleaner to map seller, lamplighter to bootblack, cigar end collector to saw sharpener, marshmallow vendor to bill sticker, ragmen and organ grinders to women carding stuffing for mattresses, people renting chairs or toy boats, or selling ice cream, or chestnuts, or chickweed, or mistletoe, or lettuce, or soup. And, naturally, les bouquinistes.