496 - HUYSMANS (Jorris-Karl). La Bièvre. (The Old Quarters of Paris.) Paris, L. Genonceaux, 1890. 8vo, light brown half-calf, ribbed spine, red title label, covers preserved (contemporary binding). A few minor scuffs.

HUYSMANS (Jorris-Karl). La Bièvre. (The Old Quarters of Paris.) Paris, L. Genonceaux, 1890. 8vo, light brown half-calf, ribbed spine, red title label, covers preserved (contemporary binding). A few minor scuffs. First separate edition of this text (previously published in various forms in periodicals and in *Croquis parisiens*), the first French edition available in bookstores. It is illustrated with 23 drawings, including a color-engraved frontispiece and a facsimile of the author’s autograph. In it, Huysmans describes the course of the Bièvre River through the working-class and industrial neighborhoods of Paris, depicting the poverty of the suburbs, the tanneries, and the transformations of the capital.