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GRANDVILLE. Les Métamorphoses du jour. Paris, Gustave Havard, 1854. In-8 (26 x 17 cm), full brown shagreen, decorated ribbed spine, gilt fleurons in the corners of the covers. Marbled edges. Period binding. XXVIII-283 pp. Tear with no missing pages on folios 5 through 8. Plates 55 and 69 are missing. Famous work first published in 1829. It is illustrated with 68 (out of 70) remarkable captioned caricatures by Grandville, wood-engraved and watercolored, as separate plates. The texts are by Albéric Second, Louis Lurine, C. Caraguel, Taxile Delord, and others, and are preceded by a note on Grandville by Charles Blanc. A pleasant copy despite the two missing plates.
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