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Paris, Hetzel et Paulin éditeurs, 1842. In 8° large, 267 x 185 mm. Two hundred full-page engravings by the famous French caricaturist Grandville, representing the "humanized" life of animals and many cartoons, slight redness but overall a wonderful copy, contemporary binding in half red morocco and marbled cardboard, spine with five compartments with gold decorations and animal depictions, title in gold letters, defects and shortcomings on the upper cover of the first volume, slight abrasions, premiere tirage.
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First edition of the famous and celebrated Public and Private Life of Grandville's Animals, considered the precursor of comics.The work was edited by Hetzel, de Balzac, Sand and other famous writers who wanted to give words to animals as a satire on 19th century French politics and personalities. Grandville's drawings influenced many generations of illustrators, including Walt Disney. The images, believed to be a study of contemporary French customs, depict animals with human bodies and attitudes and are accompanied by texts by some of the most influential French writers of the 19th century, such as Honoré de Balzac and George Sand. Although Grandville's drawings are sometimes unnatural and absurd, they usually display keen character analysis and wonderful inventive genius, and his humor is always tempered and refined by delicacy of feeling and a streak of sober reflection.
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