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[Gérard, Jean-Ignace-Isidore (1803 – 1847)], Grandville, Les Métamorphoses du Jour par Grandville Accompagnées d’un Texte par MM. Albéric Second, Louis Lurine, Clément Caraguel, Taxile Delord, H. De Beaulieu, Louis Huart, Charles Monselet, Julien Lemer Précédées d’une Notice sur Grandville par M. Charles Blanc. Nouvelle Édition Revue et complétée pour le texte par M. Jules Janin Augmentée de Nombreux Culs-de-Lampe, Têtes de Pages, Etc. Paris : Garnier Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs, 6, rue des Saints-Pères, et Palais-Royal, 215, 1869. 8vo. Collation : [ii; frontispiece, title-page (ii) ; lxiii ; 480 pages]. Bound in half red morocco on marbled boards. Five raised bands. Top page edge gilded.

71 full-page hand-colored wood-block plates bound in. This edition contains the same plates as the edition of 1854 and in the same order, but with these differences: 1) They do not have the name of the printer on them; 2) A majority of these plates are signed in the plate “J.-J. Grandville”; 3) These are printed on heavier paper; and, 4) On a great number of the plates the legends are modified or augmented. Some light foxing, but still a very good, untrimmed copy in a very secure binding. Enjoying great success during Grandville’s lifetime, Les Métamorphoses du Jour put human language and human behavior into animals, thus creating, with the anthropomorphism, a moral satire of human behavior. Les Métamorphoses du Jour first appeared in 1836. See: Vicaire, Vol. V, 787 – 788. Cartaret III : 284-285.