GRANDVILLE: Les Métamorphoses du jour. Accompagnées d'un Texte par MM. Albéric Second, Louis Lurine, Clément Garaguel, Taxile Delord, H. de Beaulieu, Louis Huart, Charles Monselet, Julien Lemer. Preceded by a notice on Grandville by M. Charles Blanc. Paris: Gustave Havard, 1854. - In-8, havana half-chagrin, percaline boards in the same color, framed with cold-stamped fillets, spine decorated with false nerves, gilt edges (period binding). 70 color wood-engraved plates based on compositions by GRANDVILLE. This is a reinterpretation in woodcut and in first printing of the majority of the artist's lithographs first published by Bulla in 1828-1829 in the album of the same title. These plates are accompanied by texts by several authors, appearing here for the first time. A fine copy in contemporary binding. Some brown spots, mainly on the text pages, the plates are practically all free of them. Ink stains on pages 89-90.