BRUANT (Aristide). Dans la rue. Songs & monologues. -Dans la rue. Second volume. Chansons & monologues. Paris: Aristide Bruant, auteur-éditeur, [1895]. -2 volumes in-12, 189 x 131: 207 pp. illustrated cover; (1 blank f.), 207 pp. (1 f.) illustrated cover. Paperback, purple cloth spine folder, slipcase. Crauzat, 549 and 576. Definitive edition of the first volume and first edition of the second, of these collections of songs and monologues by the famous chansonnier Aristide Bruant (1851-1925). The author would go on to produce two further collections of this kind, one in 1897 entitledSur la routeand the last in 1909 under the titleDans la rue...Nouvelle série. But the volumes presented here are the only ones illustrated by STEINLEN. The first volume, first published in 1889, contains over a hundred woodcuts in the text and on full pages, plus a color cover. According to Crauzat, this edition "presents some differences from the original edition in terms of illustration. Some drawings have been modified, while others are entirely new". He notes 17 new drawings and 8 pages on which the drawings have been modified. The second volume is illustrated with a fine color lithograph on the cover and 148 black compositions in the text. Copies on japon, from an edition of 100 copies for the first volume (here unnumbered), and 150 for the second (numbered 61 and signed by Aristide Bruant at the justification). Ink stains on page 201 of the first volume.