PHYSIOLOGIES PARISIENNES (Les), illustrated by Messrs Gavarni, Cham, Daumier, Bertall, Valentin, Alophe, etc. Paris, Aubert & Cie, Gustave Barba, s.d. [1850]. In-4, long-grained lemon half-maroquin with corners, smooth spine decorated throughout, untrimmed, cover and spine (Mercier Sr de Cuzin). The first collective edition of these twenty physiologies by Maurice Alhoy, Louis Huart, Henry Monnier, Balzac, Charles Philipon, Taxile Delord and others, printed on two columns and illustrated with numerous vignettes by Gavarni, Cham, Daumier, Bertall, Valentin, Alophe, etc., appeared in twenty issues. They appeared in twenty issues of 16 pp. at 20 centimes in the Bibliothèque pour rire. A superb copy. From the libraries of Paul Villebœuf, with bookplate, and Mlle L. Dousse, with bookplate. Vicaire, VI, 621.