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GRANDVILLE. DELORD, Taxile. Another World: transformations, …
See original version (French)
140
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GRANDVILLE. DELORD, Taxile. Another World: transformations, …
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
GRANDVILLE. DELORD, Taxile.
Another World: transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, movements, explorations, wanderings, excursions, stops… Paris, H. Fournier, Bookseller and Publisher, 1844.
In-4, (4)-295-(1) pp., black frontispiece, 36 colour plates and 146 woodcuts in the text, title and running text printed in red. Contemporary green half-chagrin binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt panels and blind-stamped fillets, gilt title, double gilt fillet framing the covers (some foxing, frontispiece detached, corners worn, some scuffing to the binding).
Description:
First edition of Grandville’s masterpiece, printed on heavy vellum.
First print of one of Grandville’s most curious illustrations, featuring a black frontispiece, 36 superb plates printed in black and hand-coloured at the time using wash techniques with highlights of colour, and numerous wood-engraved vignettes based on his drawings.
This work is regarded as the first Surrealist book.
The text is by Taxile Delord (1815–1877), a French journalist and politician, who also contributed to *Les Fleurs de Grandville*.
A single entry in the CCFr (BnF).
“One of Grandville’s finest and most curious works, very well printed” (Carteret, III, 285).
See original version (French)
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