36 - BÉDOLLIÈRE, Émile de la, and MONNIER, Henry. *Les Industriels: Trades and Professions in France*, with 100 drawings by Henry Monnier.

BÉDOLLIÈRE, Émile de la, and MONNIER, Henry. *Les Industriels: Trades and Professions in France*, with 100 drawings by Henry Monnier. A fine copy of the first edition, illustrated with 100 drawings by Henry Monnier depicting the small trades of 19th-century France, enriched with two autograph letters from the author and the illustrator. Paris, Widow of Louis Janet, 1842. Large 8vo (250 x 160 mm), light blond glazed half-calf, spine with raised bands highlighted by a gilt frieze, embossed floral motif and a pattern of gilt dots and circles within a double gilt frame with panels, author and title in gilt letters, date at the foot, gilt head, untrimmed, original covers preserved. Binding signed Petitot. IV and 231 pages, 100 woodcut illustrations, including 1 frontispiece, 29 separate plates, and 70 vignettes in the text. Minimal scuffs and rubbing; covers slightly browned. First edition of this work dedicated to trades and industry, illustrated with the first print run of 100 woodcut drawings by Henry Monnier, including 30 separate plates on vellum and 70 vignettes in the text, depicting small trades in 19th-century France. Complete with the plate of the Statuette Merchant (as a frontispiece and reprinted on the cover), not listed in the table of contents. [Vicaire, IV, 730]. Copy enriched with two signed autograph letters: - An autograph letter signed by Henry Monnier addressed to an author or publisher, in which he expresses his frustration with the printer who had him return unnecessarily from the countryside (1 page, in-8, Paris, February 20, 1853). - An autograph letter signed by Émile de la Bedollière addressed to Alfred Coulon, in which he includes a poem of 10 quatrains in octosyllables dedicated to “M. Terré” (3 pages, in-8 on a double leaf, August 9, 1860, with three small missing sections in the margins). In fine condition, in a later Romantic-style binding expertly executed by Petitot, bookbinder to the National Library.