238 - [PARIS] VIDAL, Pierre. *Paris qui crie*. *Petits métiers*.

[PARIS] VIDAL, Pierre. *Paris qui crie*. *Petits métiers*. First edition, illustrated with 32 drawings by Pierre Vidal depicting the small trades of the capital. Paris, Printed for the Friends of Books by Georges Chamerot, 1890. Large 8vo (230 x 180 mm), half-maroquin with chocolate-colored corners, ribbed spine decorated with the title and author’s name in gold lettering, date at the foot, gilt head, untrimmed, illustrated color covers preserved. XVI and 132 pages, 1 frontispiece, 1 vignette, and 30 color plates enhanced with watercolor. Slight rubbing, rare pinholes, a few slight discolorations. First edition of this picturesque portrayal of fin-de-siècle Paris and its street trades, illustrated by Pierre Vidal (1849–1916) with 32 color compositions enhanced with watercolor, including 30 plates outsidetext, depicting the capital’s small trades, from the “Petit Noir” to the “Café-concert,” including ragpickers, the court singer, the knife grinder, the coconut seller, and the carriage hawker... Published by Eugène Paillet, it contains a preface by Henri Beraldi and entries contributed largely by members of the Société des Amis du Livre, including Henry Spencer Ashbee, Jules Claretie, Henry Houssaye, Eugène Paillet, Baron Roger Portalis, and Eugène Rodrigues. Limited edition of 120 numbered copies; this one is one of the 29 “bearing only the serial number” (No. 92). [Vicaire I-46]. A fine copy, complete with its elegant original cover and well-bound in half-maroquin with corner pieces.