J. J. Grandville - Vie privée et publique des animaux - 1867

Exciting illustrated edition of this satirical and anthropomorphic work where the animal world becomes the biting mirror of human society, in a literary and graphic staging that combines fable, social critique, and visual fantasy.

Designed as a series of stories and illustrations, the book gathers contributions from several authors — including Charles Nodier, Alfred de Musset, Honoré de Balzac, George Sand, and Louis Viardot — who lend their pen to animals endowed with speech, consciousness, and human concerns.

Each text explores the manners, professions, passions, and flaws of 19th-century society through the perspective of an animal: the magistrate lion, the comedian monkey, the bourgeois dog, the pedagogical owl, etc.

These stories are illustrated by Grandville in an inimitable style, where animals are depicted in costume, in realistic settings, with striking human expressions.

The engravings, both humorous and unsettling, extend the satire by highlighting the absurdity, vanity, or cruelty of human behaviors.

J. J. Grandville - Private and Public Life of Animals - 1867 - L. Hetzel
636 Pages.

Good condition of the binding, work in its original half-leather, marbled boards, signs of wear, headbands, corners, and edges rubbed, some foxing on the edges, smooth spine decorated with gold fillets, gilded titling and author's name.

Good interior condition, scattered foxing, work enriched with numerous illustrations both within the text and on the pages, including a frontispiece, with marbled endpapers in good condition.

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