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Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE Voyages de Gulliver dans des contrées lointaines

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE

Jonathan SWIFT

Voyages de Gulliver dans des contrées lointaines

Furne et Cie & H. Fournier, Paris 1838, in 8 (13x21cm), 279pp. et 319pp., 2 volumes reliés.


First edition edition of the illustration of Grandville. A frontispiece on flying china and 450 vignettes on wood in-text, and 5 out of text, the four titles of the four voyages and the literary allegory in frontispiece of the notice. New translation, biographical and literary note on Jonathan Swift by Walter Scott.
Half romantic gray glazed calf. Smooth back of a long romantic iron and 2 mirrored irons, of nets. Slight traces of friction. Some scattered foxing, mainly marginal. Beautiful copy.
"The whole of this illustration occupies one of the first rows in Grandville's work." (Carteret, III, 578).

850 €

Réf : 69105

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