117 - GRANDVILLE (J.-J.). *Les Métamorphoses du jour*... Preceded by a note on Grandville by Charles Blanc. Paris, Havard, 1854. Large 8vo, midnight blue percaline, wide blind-stamped border, large gilt and mosaicked plate in the center, different on each cover, title and author’s name gilt on the front cover, smooth decorated spine, gilt edges (Publisher’s binding).

GRANDVILLE (J.-J.). *Les Métamorphoses du jour*... Preceded by a note on Grandville by Charles Blanc. Paris, Havard, 1854. Large 8vo, midnight blue percaline, wide blind-stamped border, large gilt and mosaicked plate in the center, different on each cover, title and author’s name gilt on the front cover, smooth decorated spine, gilt edges (Publisher’s binding). FIRST EDITION: 70 woodcut plates, all colored in watercolor. The drawings were transferred to wood by Desperet based on 67 lithographs by Grandville for the 1829 edition of *Les Métamorphoses du jour*, plus 3 others taken from the artist’s other collections. (See Brivois, *Bibliographie des ouvrages illustrés du XIXe siècle*, pp. 180–183, which provides a comparative table of the plates across the 1829, 1836, and 1854 editions). VERY NICE PUBLISHER’S HARDCOVER BINDING DECORATED WITH POLYCHROME PLATES, IN GOOD CONDITION.