Metamorphoses du jour

by Grandville, Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard

$1,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Quarter-bound brown calf and silk jacquard, decoratively stamped in gilt on covers and spin. Shelf worn, with edge wear to margins and corners, some chipped. Foxing to interior pages. Item #375399 Reimpression of the 1829 edition with the same 71 plates, framed here in double black lines, but missing the original preface, as well as the extra two Belgian plates issued in 1830 and afterward censored.Scathingly funny and wildly

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