EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 29 © 2019 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

65 FACING PAGE: A Bon Chat, Bon Rat (Tit for Tat, or A Good Match), from Grandville’s book ‘100 proverbs’. ABOVE: The People Delivered to the Vampire Taxes , lithograph, 1833. Grandville’s reaction to paying taxes placed the viewer in a Roman circus where some members of human society are falling and being eaten by some ghastly creatures. This image wouldn’t be out of place in some of the science- fiction pulps from the 20th century, but it’s still a biting criticism on society.