DELVAU, Alfred. Cafés & Cabarets of Paris. With Drawings - Lot 168

DELVAU, Alfred. Cafés & Cabarets of Paris. With Drawings and Etchings by Gustave Courbet, Léopold Flameng, and Félicien Rops. A stroll through the cafés and cabarets of Paris during the Second Empire, illustrated with a frontispiece by Félicien Rops and vignettes by Léopold Flameng and Gustave Courbet. Paris, E. Dentu, 1862. In-12, half-shagreen with raised bands, decorated with gilt or embossed fillets. VIII–298 pp. – 1 blank folio, one engraved frontispiece, and seven vignettes, also engraved. Very slight normal wear and tear, foxing on the first unnumbered pages, and a few scattered spots of foxing thereafter. First edition of this ballad set in the artistic, literary, and popular Paris of cabarets and cafés. It is illustrated with a frontispiece drawn and engraved by Félicien Rops (1833–1898), as well as seven original etched vignettes mounted on the text, including one by Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) and six by Léopold Flameng (1831–1911). A fine copy.