Title-page: LA | CORRECTIONNELLE | PETITES CAUSES CÉLÈBRES | ÉTUDES DE MŒURS POPULAIRES | Au Dix-Neuvième Siècle | ACCOMPAGNÉES DE CENT DESSINS | PAR GAVARNI | {woodcut vignette} | PARIS | Chez Martinon, rue du Coq-Saint-Honoré, 4 | 1840 ||

Collation: 2^o, π³ (t.p. (wrapper?), h.t., t.p.), 1-101²; 205 leaves total, of them 100 plates, lithographs by Gavarni.

Pagination: [6] [1] 2-403 [404], 410 pages total, incl. ils. (BnF calls for 426 pages total). Note: plate № 8 is numbered 9, plate № 9 numbered 8; p. 266 numbered 264, p. 268 numbered 266, p. 362 numbered 374, p. 364 numbered 376 (as called for by Carteret).

Binding: “Romantique” publisher’s quarter calf with gilt lettering and design elements over red paper boards, marbled endpapers.

Complete 100 issues of the 4-page “La Correctionnelle” with a woodcut vignette after Gavarni on the 1^st page of each issue, published between December 1839 and December 1840, and collected under one cover in 1840 by Martinon.

Catalogue raisonné: Carteret (Le trésor, 1927): pp. 177-8; Brivois (1883): p.112. Both authors marked the edition as «rare in good condition”.

Gavarni [Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier] (French, 1804 – 1866) – artist.

Amedée Gratiot et C^ie. – printer, text.

Coulon et C^ie.– printer, lithographs.

Coulon, Barthélémy Henry (French, fl. 1839 – ?)