Shelfmark
Go.3.12
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 MM de Balzac, -- L'Heritier (de l'Ain), -- Alfred de Musset, -- Paul de Musset, -- Charles Nodier, -- Madame M. Menessier nodier, -- Louis Viardot.
Varying form of title
Scènes de la vie des animaux
Publication, distribution, etc.
Paris, : J. Hetzel, éditeur, rue de Seine-Saint-Germain, 33. , 1842.
Physical description
[2], 390, [6] p., [105] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 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.
Provenance
Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown: "P. Rolandi foreign bookseller circulating library 20 Berners St. London.".
Binding
19th-century quarter-bound green calfskin and marbled cloth over millboards. Covers with blind double fillets between cloth and leather. Spine flat 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.
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
B50942