Alfred Delvau / Gustave Courbet, Léopold Flameng, Félicien Rops - Cafés & Cabarets de Paris - 1862

Superb illustrated edition with a frontispiece and small etchings at the head of certain chapters (the Courbet one in the first chapter) -

This book offers a documentary and literary walk at the heart of 19th-century Parisian life, taking as subject the cafés, cabarets, estaminets and meeting places that were then essential spaces of popular and intellectual sociability -

Through its descriptions, the author brings to life the establishments where workers, students, artists, writers, journalists, bohemians and regulars of Parisian nights gather, revealing the diversity of social milieus that mingle around a drink, a conversation or a form of entertainment -

Alfred Delvau / Gustave Courbet, Léopold Flameng, Félicien Rops - Cafés & Cabarets of Paris - 1862 - E. Dentu - XVIII+298 pages

Very good condition of the binding, the work in its half-leather binding with rear corners, marbled boards, light signs of wear, speckled edges, smooth ornate spine, gilt titling and author’s name on a morocco panel -

Good interior condition, browning, title page printed in red and black and adorned with a beautiful vignette, the work enriched with a frontispiece and small etchings at the head of certain chapters (the Courbet one in the first chapter), a fine copy -

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