Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux
Paris - J. Hetzel - 1842
- Format : In-8
- Number of volumes : 2 volumes.
- Binding : Related.
- Collation : Tome 1: 386 pp. Tome 2: 390 pp.
- Language : Français
Red half-chagrin binding with large corners. Spine with 4 nerves decorated with golden florets. Marbled dishes and guards. Inside with scattered freckles. Grandville's illustration includes 201 non-text compositions, including 2 frontispieces, and numerous woodcut vignettes in the text. Binding signed C. Questiau.
Studies of Contemporary Customs. Published under the direction of M. P. - J. Stahl, with the collaboration of Messrs de Balzac, L. Baude, E. de la Bédollière, P. Bernard, J. Janin, Ed. Lemoine, Charles nodier, George Sand.
FIRST EDITION.
His satirical boards are charges against contemporaries or attacks against the July monarchy. Adolphe Thiers was displeased with his drawings, and in 1835, during Louis-Philippe's reign, he passed a law requiring prior authorization for the publication of drawings and caricatures.
Beautiful well connected set.
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