SUE (Eugene). The Mysteries of Paris. New edition, revised by the author. Paris: Charles Gosselin's bookstore, 1843-1844 The Wandering Jew. Paris: Paulin, 1845. - 2 works in 8 volumes in-8, 270 x 188: (2 ff.), IV, 315 pp., (1 ff.), 20 plates; frontispiece, (2 ff.), 313 pp., (1 ff. ), 19 plates; frontispiece, (2 ff.), 319 pp., 16 plates; frontispiece, (2 ff.), 326 pp, (1 f.), 23 plates [for Les Mystères de Paris] - (2 ff.), 331 pp., 24 plates; (2 ff.), 332 pp., 20 plates; (2 ff.), 327 pp., 22 plates, 1 map; (2 ff.), 352 pp., 17 plates [for Le Juif errant]. - Black half-maroquin, smooth spine decorated, golden head , untrimmed (modern binding). First illustrated edition of Eugène Sue's Mystères de Paris, published only a few months after the original. In addition to several vignettes in the text, it is decorated with 81 plates in the first edition, including 47 woodcuts after Trimolet, Traviès, Nanteuil, Pauquet, Staal, Daumier, Lorsay and de Beaumont, and 34 steel engravings after Trimolet, Staal, Pauquet, Daubingy, Th. Frère, Seigneurgens, Édouard May, Dubouloz, de Beaumont , Lorsay and Lallemand. The enclosed edition of The Wandering Jew is one of the most famous romantic illustrated books, comprising nearly 600 vignettes in text and 84 plates, woodcut by the best artists of the time after Gavarni and Karl Girardet. The third volume also contains a folding map giving the Cholera-Morbus Itinerary . This is one of Gavarni's best productions. Fine copies in modern uniform bindings . Hooked on the back of the second volume of The Wandering Jew. Minimal scattered freckles.