46 pp. With 18 mounted albumen photographs by Pierre Petit, of drawings, 1 of a pair of playing cards, the remainder of caricatures, by an anonymous artist, of actors taking place in this tableaux. Images measure approx. 6.5x10.2 cm. (2½x4"). (lg. 8vo) 23x16 cm. (9¼x6½"), original printed wrappers bound in later half red morocco & marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt.

Deluxe edition of this somewhat provocative work, with 17 caricature photographs in addition to the photograph of the cards which serves as the frontispiece and was present in the regular edition. The subjects include a man dressed as a Japanese samurai, a general on horseback, a toreador, and a one-legged officer. Pierre Petit (1832-1909) was a prominent portrait photographer in France in the mid-19th century. Quite scarce - OCLC/WorldCat lists only three copies, at the University of Rochester, Harvard University, and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.