SCENES OF THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LIFE OF... - Lot 165 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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SCENES OF THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LIFE OF... - Lot 165 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
SCENES OF THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LIFE OF ANIMALS. Etudes de moeurs contemporaines published under the direction of M P.-J. Stahl Paris, Hetzel et Paulin, 1842. Two large volumes in-8, publisher's binding in green chagrin, boards decorated with five special irons, four of which are arranged at the corners, those of the center different from the lower and upper boards, spine decorated with special irons, inner scroll, linings and endpapers of white moiré paper, gilt edges. First edition (1). Two frontispieces and 199 woodcut plates after Grandville; some vignettes in the text. Texts by Balzac, L. Baude, Emile de La Bédollière, P. Bernard, Jules Janin, Charles Nodier, George Sand. Superb copy in a publisher's binding decorated with animal scenes, the most desirable condition for this famous work. The special irons on the bindings were made after the drawings made by Grandville for the cover of volume II. (1) Volume I presents an intermediate state with only part of the first printing remarks reported by Carteret (III, 556-57). As Carteret indicates, these variations correspond to the reworking of certain leaves and not to a new composition. From the library of Michel Wittock (V, 2013, no. 113) with bookplate. Label from the exhibition Dix siècles de livres français, Lucerne, 1949, no. 434.
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