PARIS QUI CRIE. PETITS MÉTIERS. de VIDAL, PIERRE - 1890

Gilt filet border on covers with gilt rose in corners; spine gilt-lettered with climbing vine and urn design. Original black and gilt wrappers and spine bound in with scenes in color on both covers. Minor marginal spotting. One of only 120 copies. Preface by Henri Beraldi, scholar and the most distinguished book collector of his time. He initiated a series of illustrated books celebrating life and locales in Paris, published in very limited editions. Thirty colored plates and one vignette by Pierre Vidal depicting Parisian peddlers and merchants, each with facing text by various authors, depicting the flower girl, street singer, food and drink vendors, a chair renter for outdoor events, a man who picks up cigar butts, and a ticket scalper. Heinrich Heine wrote that when God became bored in heaven, he looked out on the boulevards of Paris. Vicaire I, 46.