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OLD NICK et GRANDVILLE
Petites Miséres de la vie humaine

Paris: H. Fournier, 1844. 

Second edition of this comic work, written by Old Nick (Emile Forgúes) and illustrated with attractive caricatures by Grandville. First published in 1843, this copy was produced the following year. 50 out-of-text plates, including two frontispieces, and numerous vignettes in the text, all woodcut after Grandville. Complete. The binding is a later cloth and marbled boards hardback, with the original (?) leather label laid onto the spine. Although mostly a clean copy, there is a touch of foxing to the pages, and a light water mark affects the first 20% of the page edges (see photographs). Still an attractive copy. viii, 392 pages. 210 by 140mm (8¼ by 5½ inches).

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