Title: LES | CURIOSITÉS DE PARIS | PAR | CH. VIRMAITRE | PRÉFACE DE M. XAVIER EYMA | PARIS | P. LEBIGRE-DUQUESNE, LIBRAIRE-ÉDITEUR | 16, RUE HAUTEFEUILLE, 16 | 1868 ||
Collation: 18mo, π6; 1-1918.
Pagination: [2] – pictorial title by A. Gill, engr. Marchandeau / blank, [2] – t.p. / blank, [2] dedication to Émile de Girardin / blank, [vii] viii-xii – préface; [1] 2-360, bfl.
Note: pp. 223/224 and XIX chapter’s f.t. unpaginated and loose, but collation is not interrupted. Other chapters f.t. paginated.
Binding: hardcover, quarter brown buckram over marbled boards, flat spine, gilt fillets, gilt lettering over the black label.
Contributors:
Charles Virmaître (1835 – 1903) – text.
Xavier Eyma (1816 – 1876) – text / preface.
André Gill (French, 1840 – 1885) – artist / pictorial title.
Marchandeau (French, fl. c. 1867) – engraver / pictorial title.