Grandville - Les Metamorphoses du Jour [70 Planches en Couleurs] - 1854

Very rare and sought-after first edition and first issue of this highly charming work by Grandville, considered the masterpiece of French illustrated satire of the nineteenth century. See Carteret III, 286. J. Isidore Grandville, Les metamorphoses du jour..., Paris, Gustave Havard, 1854. Pp.: (IV), XXVIII, 283, (I). COMPLETE, with 70 plates hors texte engraved in wood and hand-watercolored. Copy with leaves in overall good to very good condition, with the usual signs of use and age. Widespread foxing. Contemporary half-leather binding with gilt title to the spine, very well preserved. Marbled endpapers. Ex-libris label rubbed, applied to the front pastedown.

Estimate:£143.34

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