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385 - Grandville.- Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux. 2 vols. Paris, Hetzel & Paulin, 1842. 4 leaves, 386 pages, 3 leaves; 2 leaves, 390 pages, 3 leaves. With 202 wood-engraved plates and numerous wood-engraved vignettes by Grandville. 4to. Contemporary cloth bindings with gilt-stamped animal illustrations after Grandville on spines and covers (spines faded, one outer hinge cracked, one spine restored using the original material).
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Grandville.- Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux. 2 vols. Paris, Hetzel & Paulin, 1842. 4 leaves, 386 pages, 3 leaves; 2 leaves, 390 pages, 3 leaves. With 202 wood-engraved plates and numerous wood-engraved vignettes by Grandville. 4to. Contemporary cloth bindings with gilt-stamped animal illustrations after Grandville on spines and covers (spines faded, one outer hinge cracked, one spine restored using the original material). Carteret 556ff; Sander 312.- Volume 2 in the first printing, Volume 1 in the second printing of the first edition.- Coded satire on the social and political conditions of the time, 'as full of charming, humorous fantasy as of bitter indictment ...' (Carteret).- Wide margins.- Occasionally slightly foxed.
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