DELORME (Hugues). Quays and Sidewalks. Paris:... - Lot 81 - Ader

DELORME (Hugues). Quays and Sidewalks. Paris: pour les Cent bibliophiles, 1898. - In-8, 255 x 170 : (2 ff.), 73 pp., (3 ff. last blank), 13 plates, illustrated cover. Bradel silk brocaded burgundy, smooth spine, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, flap folder and slipcase (contemporary binding). Rare first edition, printed at only 115 copies on Arches wove paper. It is a collection of 13 poems in which the chansonnier Hugues Delorme (1868-1942) evokes the popular life of Paris during the Belle Époque through certain small Parisian trades. These poems are titled as follows: Le Mégotier. - The Blind Singer. - The Camelot. - Les Paulus en plein air. - Failed. - La Romane à la mode. - Broker. - The Barber of the Barbers. - The Braseros. - The Cork Fisherman. - Anglers. - The Man of the Banks. - Old copyists. The edition is illustrated with numerous compositions in black in the margins, in headings and cul-de-lampe, and 13 original colour lithographs by the painter and cartoonist Oswald-Pierre Heidbrinck (1858-1914), which bring to life the picturesque characters evoked by Delorme as well as the settings and atmosphere that could have been there. Specially printed copy for Pierre Dauze, pseudonym of Paul-Louis Dreyfus Bing, founder and director of the Revue Biblio-iconographique (1894-1897), publisher of the Répertoire des ventes publiques cataloguées de livres . (1894-1895) and the Manuel de l'amateur d'éditions originales (until 1911). He possessed a very important library, most of which consisted of first editions by authors of the 19th and early 20th centuries, with copies often enriched by letters or autographs. His collection was dispersed after his death at three successive sales held in Paris in 1914, 1917 and 1918, with 23 leaves of original drawings and sketches signed by the artist, executed in ink and black or blue pencil, which served as studies for the illustration of the book . Each drawi