[PARIS] PRIVAT D'ANGLEMONT, Alexandre, and BELON, José. *Par - Lot 250

[PARIS] PRIVAT D'ANGLEMONT, Alexandre, and BELON, José. *Paris Anecdote*. First illustrated edition. One of 50 copies printed on Japanese paper, containing a second state. Paris, Rouquette, 1885. In-4, red half-maroquin, ribbed spine, gilt head, untrimmed, illustrated cover and spine preserved. 278 pp., engraved frontispiece portrait and 50 drawings reproduced in black. Slight mark on the upper board of the binding; cover preserved but slightly soiled. First illustrated edition by José Belon (1861–1927). The frontispiece features a portrait of the author etched by R. de Los Rios. Preface and notes by Charles Monselet. One of 50 numbered copies on Japanese paper containing a second state of the vignettes with annotations. Vignette featuring a coat-of-arms bookplate. A picturesque portrayal of working-class Paris, describing the small trades, the outcasts, the night owls, and the little-known neighborhoods of the capital prior to the Haussmannian renovations. A friend of Baudelaire, Alexandre Privat d’Anglemont (1815–1859) is considered one of the finest chroniclers of “bohemian” Paris. A very fine copy, in a sturdy binding.