UZANNE (Octave). The French of the century. Modes - Mœurs - Usages. Paris : A. Quantin, 1886. - In-8, 271 x 176 : frontispiece, (2 ff.), XVI, 273 pp, (2 ff.), 9 plates, illustrated cover. Bleu pétrole morocco, pink rose hip with mosaic flowers and foliage in natural tones, decorating the spine and the edge of the boards, smooth spine, bleu pétrole morocco framed inside, decorated with gilt fillets, gilt leaves and gilt and mosaic flowers, silk lining and endpapers with cashmere patterns, gilt edges on witnesses, double guards, cover and spine preserved (Marius Magnin) First edition illustrated with thirty compositions by Albert LYNCH, etched in colors by Eugène Gaujean, including a frontispiece, nine hors-texts, ten headbands and ten lettering. ONE OF ONE HUNDRED COPIES ON JAPAN, including two states of the illustrations, including the one on the first cover. A very fine copy in a mosaic binding, made by the Lyon bookbinder Marius Magnin. Slight white trace on the first cover. Without jacket or case.