THE PINK GUIDE ~ for Strangers in Paris, a very complete and very accurate Guide indicating the hours of all the railways for Paris and the environs; the present tariff for Hackney Carriages etc., etc. Paris: [M. Loignon, Clichy for] Henri Guérard, 1870.
18mo (140 × 90 mm), pp. 26, [10] printed on pink paper, plus printed pictorial bright pink wrappers (which are slightly frayed with small loss to upper forecorner of the upper wrapper). Very good.
An ephemeral visitors’ guide — a rare survival. Though unlikely to be the first edition (the cover notes: ‘like all precdeding editions, this is of 50,000’) it is the earliest edition we have found in French, British or American library catalogues. The cover also notes its publication in French, German and Italian. It provides essential information on travel, principal sights, libraries, churches, fountains, gardens, shops, hotels, banks and museum. Copies were sold by the firm of Henri Guérard (stereoscope manufacturers) under the Colonnade of the Louvre.