Gustave Macé. La police parisienne: Le vilain monde; Les dépeceurs de cadavres; Gibier de Saint-Lazare. — Paris: Librairie illustrée, [1889].

Gustave Macé. La Police parisienne. Le vilain monde. Les dépeceurs de cadavres. Gibier de Saint-Lazare — Paris: Librairie illustrée, [1889].

Title-page: LA | POLICE PARISIENNE |—| LE VILAIN MONDE |—| LES DEPECEURS DE CADAVRES |—| GIBIER DE SAINT-LAZARE |—| Par | G. MACE | ANCIEN CHEF DE LA POLICE DE SURETÉ | {publisher’s device} | PARIS | LIBRAIRIE ILLUSTRÉE | 8, RUE SAINT-JOSEPH, 8 ||

Description: Hardcover, 4to, 28 x 20 cm, quarter green calf over green marbled boards, raised bands, gilt lettering and gilt fillets to spine, marbled endpapers.

Collation:1^st bank, [π² h.t., t.p.], [1]-107⁴ [108]² table, last blank; total 432 leaves; 107 woodcuts by Puyplat after E. Mas (on the recto of the first leaf of each complete gathering).

Pagination: [4] [1-3] 4-859 [860]; total 864 pp.

Edition: Later edition, probably 1889; the 1st edition was published in 1885.

Contributors:

Gustave Macé (French, 1835 – 1904) – author.

Émile Mas (French, 1866 – 1950) – artist.

Jules Jacques Puyplat (French, fl. c. 1877 – 1893) – engraver.