GRANDVILLE (Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard, dit J.J.).

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GRANDVILLE (Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard, dit J.J.).
Cent proverbes. Paris, Fournier, 1845. In-8, lavaliere half-maroquin with corners, spine decorated with rocaille irons, gilt head, untrimmed, illustrated cover kept (A. Devauchelle). First edition and first printing of the 110 wood-engraved compositions after Grandville, including a frontispiece and fifty plates outside the text. Complete with the rare illustrated cover (without the spine) decorated on the first plate with a vignette not reproduced in the book (vignette of the frontispiece on the second plate). One of the most successful books by the artist who represented himself on page 354, "rare in fine condition" (Carteret, III, 282).
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