My hero was good at hanging, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

My hero was good at hanging, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Honoré de Balzac

1832 - 1852 Print

59.500.592(52)

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