[GRANDVILLE] - SWIFT (Jonathan). Gulliver's travels in distant lands. Paris : Furne et Cie, H. Fournier aîné, 1838. - 2 volumes in-8, 216 x 135 : frontispiece, (2 ff.), LIX pp. misquoted LXIX, 279 pp. printed cover ; (2 ff.), 319 pp. printed cover. Dark green half calf with corners, gilt fillets, smooth spine decorated, untrimmed, cover preserved, slipcase (Esparon). One of the most beautiful books illustrated by Grandville, containing, in the first edition, a frontispiece printed on China paper, four frontispiece titles and 450 woodcut vignettes in the text or on the full page. According to Brivois, "this illustration ranks among the first in Grandville's work" (Brivois, 387). The text is preceded by a long note by Walter Scott on Swift. A choice copy bound in booklet in 1939 by the Parisian bookbinder René Esparon for the collector Lucien Tissot Dupont. It has been washed and ALL THE ILLUSTRATIONS HAVE BEEN COLORED AND GUMMED BY A CERTAIN TEYSSÈRE. A pencil note at the end of the second volume, indicates that the copy was acquired in January 1939, that it was washed in February, colored by Teyssère in March and bound by Esparon in July. Spine faded, some rubbing from use. Provenance: Lucien Tissot Dupont, with ex-libris (cat. 1970, n° 79).