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Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE & Honoré de BALZAC & George SAND

Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux

Chez Hetzel et Paulin, à Paris 1842, 18x26,5cm, 386pp. et 390pp., 2 volumes reliés.


first edition, admirably illustrated with 201 figures out of text and 120 vignettes by Grandville.
Bindings in black half chagrin. Back with false nerves decorated with cold boxes. Titles and golden tones. boards of black shagreen paper. Slight friction. Very fresh set, endowed with a very white paper, in spite of a few scattered pale reds. Beautiful exemplary, sober and quality.
This famous publication, satire of the contemporary Parisian society of the Second Empire, is no longer exhibited, the work of which is due to Hetzel, who under the pseudonym of Stahl has signed several texts and commissioned texts with the most famous plumes of the " Balzac, Musset, Sand, La Bedollière ... The last chapter tells the imprisonment of the different writers that can be seen in different locations in the Jardin des Plantes. One of the great works of imagination of Grandville, full of verve and fantasy.

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