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GRANDVILLE Jean-Ignace-Isidore

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The Metamorphoses of the Day...preceded by a note on Grandville by Charles Blanc. Paris, G. Havard, 1854. Grand in-8. Complete with all 70 colored off-text plates. Percaline publisher's bookbinding with polychrome decoration. First plate reproducing plate XXXVI "Ma femme est sorti, ma petite chatte...", the second plate reproducing plate XXIV "Oh ! le monstre d'homme ! y nous suit toujours". Back decorated with a banner bearing the title, wrapped around a mast, is here surmounted by a star. Golden slices. Very nice copy. Provenance collection P Gavault (ex-libris)

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