8vo. [6], viii, 245pp, [3]. With two preliminary publishers advertisement leaves, another terminal leaf of same, a half-title, an engraved frontispiece, four engraved plates, and numerous illustrations in the text. Partially unopened in original publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt. Extremities a trifle rubbed with some loss and tearing to head and foot of spine. Armorial bookplate of Reginald Arthur Tatton to FEP.

First printed by Harper & Bros. in New York in 1852, Parisian Sights, a copiously illustrated travelogue on the French capital and the mannerisms of her people, is most commonly attributed to James Jackson Jarves (1818-1888), a newspaper editor considered to be the first American art collector to purchase Old Masters and Italian primitives.

COPAC records only five copies of this first London edition; Aberdeen, Birmingham, BL, Durham, and NLS.