MONTORGUEIL (Georges). Paris au hasard. Paris, Printed for Henri Beraldi, 1895. In-8, orange morocco, boards framed with a geometrical decoration composed of multiple gilt fillets, double gilt fillet on headpieces and spines, spine decorated, gilt inner border, green satin lining and endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine (Canape). Illustrated first edition with a frontispiece, a title vignette repeated on the cover, and 221 compositions in the text, all wood-engraved by Auguste Lepère. One of 138 numbered press copies on vellum paper from the Papeteries du Marais. It is enriched with four original drawings by Auguste Lepère, 3 of which bear his monogram stamp: two ink wash sketches of the frontispiece, one of which is enhanced with white, a sketch on rag paper, and a recto verso sketch with remarks for the two woodcuts on pages 294 and 295. A fine copy in an original binding signed by Canape, with large margins preserved. From the Charles Miguet library (1953, no. 104), with bookplate.