Exterior: 4to, 27.3 x 18 cm, quarter black morocco over marbled boards, double gilt fillet border, spine with raised bands, compartments framed in gilt with gilt fleurons, black label lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers. Inscription to half-title in the bottom: n^o 411. Bookplate to front pastedown.

Title-page: LES | PRISONS DE PARIS | HISTOIRE, TYPES, MŒURS, MYSTÈRES | PAR | MAURICE ALHOY ET LOUIS LURINE | ÉDITION ILLUSTRÉE. | {vignette} | PARIS — 1846 | PUBLIÉ PAR GUSTAVE HAVARD | 24, RUE DES MATHURINS-SAINT-JACQUES. ||

Printer: Lacrampe et Comp.

Collation: 4^to; π² a⁴ 1-68⁴ χ²; total 280 leaves and 34 leaves of plates.

Pagination: first and last leaves blank; [2 -h.t./imprint.] [2 – t.p./blank] [2 dedication/blank] [i intro] ii-vi, [1] 2-544 [2 – list of plates/advert.] [2 – contents/blank]; total 560 pages, plus 34 wood-engraved plates, incl. a frontispiece by Laisne after Bertall, and numerous in-text woodcuts.

Provenance: Bookplate of Selim Hippolyte Ansart (French, 1829 – 1897), commissar of police in the Second Empire and shortly after (chef de la police municipaie ; chevalier du 13 août 1867; vingt-trois ans de service effectif).

Authors:

Philadelphe-Maurice Alhoy (French, 1802 – 1856)

Louis Lurine (French, 1812 – 1860)

Artists:

Bertall [ Bertal; Charles Albert d’Arnoux (French, 1820 – 1882)

Jules [Jean-Baptiste] David (French, 1808–1892)

Charles-François Pinot (French, 1817 – 1879)

Eustache Lorsay [French, Eugène Lampsonius] (1822 – 1871)

Pierre Édouard Frère (French, 1819 – 1886)

Charles-Édouard de Beaumont (French, 1819 – 1888)

Engravers

Laisné Adèle / Aglaé / Alfred (French, fl. 1835 – 1868)

Louis Dujardin (French, 1808 – 1859)

François Rouget (Belgian, c. 1825 – ?)

Janet-Lange [Ange-Louis Janet] (French, 1815 – 1872)

Jacques Adrien Lavieille (French, 1818 – 1862)

Timms (French, fl. c. 1839 – 1865)

Félix Leblanc (French, 1823 – ?)

Émile Montigneul (French, fl. 1840 – 1850)