Les Francais peints par eux-mêmes. Encyclopédie Morale du dix-neuvième siècle.

Les Francais peints par eux-mêmes. [5 vols.]. Les Francais peints par eux-mêmes. Province [3 vols.]. Le Prisme [1 vol.]. Paris, L. Curmer, 1840-1842.

9 vols., large 8vo., half-leather, uniformly bound, spine with title in orange and gilt-stamping. Full series with all plates and the map, in colour, of France in vol. 3 of Province. 233 plates outside of the text and ca. 1500 in-text vignettes. Texts by, among others: De Balzac, T. Delord, J. Janin, E. de la Bedolliere and illustrations by, among others, Gavarni, Daumier, H.Monnier, Meissonier, Pauquet, Trimolet, Grandville. Plates foxed as is common, various vols. with water damage. Contents index of all 9 vols. in the back of vol. 5. Incl. the 9th vol. which is usually missing. Interesting encyclopedia w.r.t. France and the French in the first half of the 19th century.