GRANDVILLE Jean-Ignace-Isidore

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GRANDVILLE Jean-Ignace-Isidore
Scenes from the private and public lives of animals. Study of contemporary mores. Edited by M. P. J Stahl. Paris, Hetzel and Paulin, 1842. 2 volumes grand in-8. Green percaline binder with special plates based on Grandville's drawings for the cover of volume II. The original drawing for the plate on the front covers, showing in part a frog and a bird greeting each other, is reproduced by Sophie Malavieille in Reliures et cartonnages d'éditeur en France au XIXe siècle, p. 125. The absence of decoration on the corners of the first is indicative of the binding for the first edition, but the legend of the frontispiece "of the posters will be ... "has now replaced the caption "General Badigeonography of the walls of France and abroad", a victim of censorship. Smooth back decorated with animal motifs. Golden edges. Very beautiful book illustrated by Grandville, including 2 frontispices, 199 plates and many woodcut vignettes in the text. Nice copy
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