Shelfmark
Go.3.11
Title
Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux vignettes par Grandville. Études de mœurs contemporaines publiées sous la direction de M. P.-J. Stahl, avec la collaboration de messieurs De Balzac. - L. Baude. - E. de la Bédollierre. - P. Bernard. - J. Janin. - Ed. Lemoine. - Charles Nodier. - George Sand.
Varying form of title
Spine title: Scènes de la vie des animaux
Publication, distribution, etc.
Paris, : J. Hetzel, éditeur, rue Richelieu, 76; rue Ménars, 10., 1844.
Physical description
[6], 386, [6] p.; [95] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Note
P.J. Stahl is a pseudonym for Pierre-Jules Hetzel.
Note
Includes title vignette.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Alexander Huth with motto “animus non res” on front pastedown.
Binding
19th-century quarter-bound green calfskin and marbled paper over millboards. Covers with blind double fillets between paper and leather. Spine with four raised bands, decorated with gilt and blind tools and fillets; gilt titling over red label ("Scènes de la vie des animaux"). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Bookseller's ms. notes on first flyleaf verso.
Subject
French wit and humor, pictorial.
Subject
Caricatures and cartoons France 19th century.
Subject
Animals, Legends and stories.
Added entry--name
Grandville, J. J., 1803 - 1847 illustrator.
Added entry--name
Stahl, P.-J., 1814 - 1886 editor.
Added entry--name
Hetzel, Pierre-Jules, 1814 - 1886 publisher.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
fre
Identifier
B50941