Paris et le Louvre
Paris, Poulet-Malassis & de Broise, (June) 1857.
1 vol. (115 x 170 mm) of 29 p. and [1] f. Half long-grained blue morocco with corners, smooth spine decorated with flowers, gilt title, date gilt at foot, gilt fillet on covers, top edge gilt, original wrappers and spine preserved (binding signed by Semet et Plumelle).
First edition. Fine printing in italic type on laid paper, printed in 400 copies on Hollande paper.
“This is the most farcical and aggressive of all the satires Banville ever wrote” (Oberlé): it is ironically dedicated to Doctor Véron, a patron widely disliked in literary circles, whom Banville had already attacked in his first collection, in a poem from the Odes funambulesques (“V… le baigneur”), mocking the doctor in his sitz bath.
A rare and charming copy, overshadowed by the publication, the same month and by the same publisher, of Les Fleurs du Mal!
From the library of Albert Natural (bookplate).
Oberlé, 156; Carteret, I, 95; Vicaire, 264.
#28431
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