[Caricature] (Hadol, P.). La menagerie impériale

Composée des ruminants, amphibies, carnivores, et autres budgetivores qui ont dévoré la France pendant 20 ans. Paris, Au Bureau des Annonces, n.d. (1870). Title and 31 handcol. lithogr. plates by Hadol. Loose as issued in contemp. boards w. mounted handcol. lithogr. title. Sm. 4to.

Edges sl. worn and browned, as usual. Caricatural album with representations of the royal family and the most important politicians active during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). Contains plates of a.o. Napoleon III as a vulture, Eugenie as a crane, baron Hausmann as a beaver and princess Mathilde as a mothering pig. Thieme/ Becker XV, p. 421.