Author: ROUGEMONT, (Michel-Nicolas Balisson de).
Title: Le Bonhomme, ou nouvelles observations sur les moeurs parisiennes au commencement du dix-neuvième siècle.
Description: 1818 With 2 engr. plates, and numerous wood-engraved vignettes. 382 pp., 1 leaf. 12mo. Contemp. half calf, red spine label. Paris, Pillet, 1818. First edition of this collection of anecdotes about Parisian life by the prolific writer and dramatist de Rougemont, divided into 28 chapters dated 1817-1818, with such topics as: La journée d'un mendiant, un curé de campagne, les honnêtes gens, un bal bourgeois, la messe de minuit etc. Baron de Rougemont (1781-1840) was best know for his plays which had an enormous success at the time. Wood-engraving as a method of book illustration had only just become popular in France in the early 19th century. - A nice crisp copy. - Quérard, La France littéraire, VIII, 174. FRANCE ; LITERATURE: FRENCH ;

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