The mysteries of Paris
By: illustrated with upwards of seven hundred engravings on wood, executed under the superintendence of Mr. Charles Heath
Contributors: Heath, Charles, 1785-1848, engraver; Chapman and Hall
Edition: The only English edition authorized by M. Eugène Sue.
Publisher: Chapman and Hall
Published: 1845
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 504
Subjects: Popular literature; Penny dreadfuls; French fiction
Work titles: Mystères de Paris
Notes: First edition, issued in 90 weekly parts.

Paged for binding in three volumes; preliminary matter and title page for vol. 1 is in no. 31, vol. 2 in no. 62, and vol. 3 in no. 90. Title page for vol. 1 and 2 reads: The mysteries of Paris / by Eugène Sue ... London : Chapman and Hall, 186 Strand, 1845. Title page for vol. 3 has date of 1846.

Title from printed wrappers; date of publication from title pages.

"This new and splendid edition ... is translated from the last carefully revised copy now in course of publication in Paris ... The design of this publication is to present to the English public a translation that, while it repudiates every thing than can by possibility be thought offensive to the English reader, shall still preserve that intense interest which has given it such universal popularity."--Notice, on rear wrapper of no. 1.

Rare Book copy: Imperfect; rear wrapper of no. 14 wanting.

Rare Book copy: From the library of Florence and Edward Kaye, detective fiction collectors, with their bookplate.

In English; translation of Les mystères de Paris in the original French.

Rare Book copy: All parts in original pictorial wrappers and contained in two folding cloth cases.