Grandville, Jean - Jacques - Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animax Paris, Hetzel et Paulin éditeurs, 1842. In 8° large, 267 x 185 mm. Two hundred full-page engravings by the famous French caricaturist Grandville, depicting the "humanized" life of animals and many vignettes, slight reddening but overall a stupendous copy, coeval binding in red half morocco and marbled cardboard, five-compartment spine with gold decorations and animal depictions, title in gold letters, flaws and faults to upper cap of Volume I, slight abrasions, premiere tirage.