OLD NICK.
Small miseries of human life. Paris, H. Fournier, 1843. Grand. in-8°. Bound by Champs: demi-maroquin rouge à coins,, spine with nerves, ORIGINAL EDITION evoking "without choice, without order, without premeditation" the small miseries under their "most buffoonish aspect at the same time and the most disenchanted". First print of the 50 off-text (including the frontispiece and the engraved title) and more than 150 woodwinds in text. Text and illustration by Grandville and Forgues, "two penetrating and sure minds [...] in whom a rare faculty of analysis never dampens the verve and fecundity of invention". # Carteret III-471; Brivois p. 322; Vicar III-756/757.
Provenance Lucien Allienne, (ex-libris). The library of Allienne was dispersed in 1985.
Very nice copy
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