Lot n° 142
Estimation :
1500 - 1500
EUR
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Result
: 1 880EUR
GRANDVILLE Jean-Jacques. Métamorphose du jour [Paris, Bulla, - Lot 142
GRANDVILLE Jean-Jacques. Métamorphose du jour [Paris, Bulla, 1829]; large in-8 printed here large in-4 (355 x 260 mm) mounted on tabs, bradel old red half-maroquin with corners, trimmed.
First printing of one of the first, most famous and rare collections of Grandville, which brought him immediate fame.
One leaf (title and text by Achille Comte on one page) and 73 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS BY GRANDVILLE GENTLY AQUARELLED IN THE EPOC. The last two are rare because they appeared a year after the others. "It is at the same time the living painting of our social mores and the satire of the institutions. - Tears repaired on plates 47, 61, 64, 68. Some foxing to one plate.
Beautiful and rare copy printed in large quarto and in rich contemporary colors.
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