DEFOE (Daniel). Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. New translation. Paris, H. Fournier, 1840. Large in-8, green half-maroquin with corners, spine decorated, untrimmed, cover (V. Champs). First edition of one of Grandville's best books, illustrated with a frontispiece on chine volant, interpreted by Brévière after Grandville and Français, 40 out-of-text figures and 165 vignettes, bandeaux, culs-de-lampe and lettrines, all wood-engraved after drawings by Jean-Jacques Grandville. A very fine copy with the hors texte illustrations in double state, on vellum and on chine, and the frontispiece in triple proof. "The woodcut illustrations were printed on chine in a small number, and the copies containing them are sought-after" (Carteret). The volume, untrimmed, has been washed, glued and elegantly bound by Victor Champs. From the André Sciama library, with bookplate. Discrete repairs to the cover and margin of the frontispiece. Carteret, III, 241 - Ray, 272-273.