The Diary of J. J. Grandville and the Missouri Album: The Life of an Opposition Caricaturist and Romantic Book Illustrator in Pa

This volume combines a short biography of the life of French caricaturist and book illustrator J.J. Grandville (1803-1847) with a systematic catalog of a previously unexamined album of his drawings from the years 1830 to 1846 in the Special Collections of the U. of Missouri-Columbia Libraries. The album is notable for more than just the drawings in that it also contains a significant number of excerpts from Grandville's diaries and thus allow for a fuller understanding of Grandville's life and work. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)