[Arsenic Collection] Two Tales of Paris At the Beginning of Modernization: d'Isle - La Promenade aux Champs-Élysées suivie de Malice et Bonté (1854)

d’Isle, René. La Promenade aux Champs-Élysées suivie de Malice et Bonté. Limoges & Paris: Martial Ardant Frères, 1854.  (125 x 81 mm) 94 pp. and Table des matières with black and white engraved frontispiece. Bound by Janvier in Paris. Pale green cardboard binding (cartonnage romantique papier), with color illustration onlay on front cover and gilt decoration embossed on both front and back with gilt gauffers. Minor bumping to endbands and corners. Currently housed in removable mylar jacket for safety & conservation. Overall VERY GOOD condition.   ABOUT THE TEXT—  From the series ‘Bibliothèque religieuse, morale et littéraire, pour l’enfance et la jeunesse’ Two short tales of set in Paris just as Hausmannization ushered the cityscape from the remnants of the Medieval town into the modern city of wide boulevards and parks that it is today. The stories are focused on two sets of Parisians, with short descriptions of various notable places around the city.   ABOUT THE PUBLISHER— Ma