RICHEPIN (Jean). La Chanson des gueux. Complete edition decorated with 252 original compositions by Steinlen. [Followed by]: Dernières chansons de mon Premier Livre. Original edition decorated with twenty-four compositions by Steinlen. Paris: Édouard Pelletan, 1910. - 2 volumes in-4, 265 x 200: (3 ff.), 366 pp. (2 ff. last blank), printed cover; (2) ff. 39 pp. printed cover. Paperback, lined covers. Carteret, Le Trésor du bibliophile. Livres illustrés modernes 1875 à 1945, IV, p. 341. - Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 341-342: "The 252 designs which [Steinlen] provided include some of his best and most characteristic work." Definitive edition of La Chanson des gueux and original edition of Dernières Chansons de mon Premier Livre, which complement it. These two works contain some of the masterpieces of Steinlen (1859-1923), according to Gordon Ray. Carteret, for his part, judged this edition as follows: "A very fine and highly-rated publication, in great favor with bibliophiles. The publisher has abandoned lithography, adopting the direct burin process, which conveys the artist's talent admirably". The Chanson des geux is illustrated with 252 compositions in the text, and the Dernières Chansons with 26 compositions, two of which are full-page. The print run mentioned in La Chanson des gueux is 340 copies, whereas the prospectus states 325. Les Dernières chansons were printed in an edition of 300 copies. Each title is here one of 267 and one of 240 copies on vellum, both bearing the number 79, signed by the publisher on the justification. Copies as issued, complete with publication prospectus.