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[GRANDVILLE]. *Les Fleurs Animées* by J.
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73
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[GRANDVILLE]. *Les Fleurs Animées* by J.
See original version (French)
Estimate €80 - €120
Voluntary lot
Description
[GRANDVILLE]. *Les Fleurs Animées* by J. J. Grandville. Text by Alphonse Karr, Taxile Delord and Count Foelix. New edition with plates very carefully retouched for engraving and colouring by Mr Maubert. Paris, Garnier Frères, 1867. Two volumes, large 8½, in red chagrin, chagrin-textured cloth covers decorated with cold-stamped fillet borders, ribbed spine adorned with gilt panels, gilt title and volume number, gilt edges (contemporary binding). Two quires detached at the top of volume 2, a few very scattered, faint foxing spots, corners worn. NEW EDITION, following those of 1837 and 1857, of one of Grandville’s most famous illustrated books. A very complete copy of the 54 PLATES, out of text, printed on tinted vellum, including 52 remarkable COLOURED plates (29 in the first volume and 23 in the second) and 2 black-and-white botanical plates at the end of the second volume, as well as numerous wood-engraved drawings and initial letters within the text. Grandville’s compositions, which combine the plant world with the human figure with extraordinary imagination, rank among the most characteristic creations of French Romantic illustration. ¶ Vicaire, III, 135.
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