EXTREMELY RARE. Monnier Only One Copy in Institutions Worldwide. A rare suite of six hand-coloured lithographed plates (without the hand-coloured lithographed title) otherwise complete as issued. Oblong quarto. Plate size: 10 x 13 1/8 inches (253 x 338 mm). Bound to contemporary style in full dark green morocco. Gilt ruled borders. Gilt panel. Gilt lettering and ornaments to spine. Restoration to lower corner of plate four otherwise a fine copy. For reasons unknown, Ray identifies this suite as being by Eugene Lami despite the plates clearly identified as by Monnier; the only copy to come to auction in the last thirty-five years is also identified Lami as the artist. Melcher, however, correctly identifies the suite as Monnier's, as does Marie (Marie Aristide. Henri Monnier 1799-1877. Paris 1931) and Champfleury. Curiously the only copy in institutional holdings in the Morgan Library belonged to Ray. Still, though the note is under Lami's authorship, the Responsibility detail in OCLC/RILN clearly states par, Monnier." François Séraphin Delpech was a French lithographer mainly of portraits and costumes after his contemporaries. His portrait lithographs are in the collection of Britain's National Portrait Gallery and the Louvre. The colour plates in order: 1. Le Marais. 2. Quartier St. Denis. 3. Quartier de la Bourse. 4. Chaussée d'Antin. 5. Faubourg St. Honoré. 6. Le Faubourg St. Germain.