Les Français peints par eux-mêmes
Subtitle: encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siècle.
Publisher: L. Curmer
Published: 1841
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Costume -- France.; France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.; Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Other titles: Le Prisme. 1841.; Encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième sièlce.
Notes: For detailed bibliographical description, see Vicaire. Manuel de l'amateur de livres du XIXe sièlce, t. 3, 1897, columns 794-803; and Carteret. Le trésor du bibliophile ... 1801-1875, t. 3, 1927, p.245-251.
Originally issued in parts, 1839-42.
Completed vols. 1-3 were first issued without subtitle on t.p., 1840-41.
Text by Achard, Balzac, Janin, Karr, Nodier, Soulié, and many others. Illustrations by Gavarni, Grandville, Johannot, Meissonnier, and others.
Vols. 1-5 deal with general types. Vols. [6-8] (numbered 1-3) contain provincial and colonial types and have title: Les Français peints par eux-mêmes; encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siécle. Province.
Supplementary v. [9] has title: Le Prisme; encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvème siécle.
Two signed autograph letters from Henri Monnier to Curmer inserted in v. [6]
Ex libris Pierre van der Rest.