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Paris: Garnier Freres, 1867. New Edition. Hardcover. Foxing to the text, but the color plates are quite clean. A few plates loose or detached in the second volume. Very Good set of this classic. J. J. Grandville. Two quarto (7" x 10-3/4") volumes bound in half green calf leather with gilt lettering and green marbled boards. Illustrated with 52 superb anthropomorphic hand-colored plates (including 2 title pages), 2 black-and-white plates, and numerous wood-engravings in the text, all after J. J. Grandville. Text by several contributors. Grandville was a caricaturist best known for presenting animals and flowers in human form and using them to satirize the French social and political milieu of his period.
LES FLEURS ANIMEES by GRANDVILLE, J.J
by GRANDVILLE, J.J
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LES FLEURS ANIMEES
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GRANDVILLES, J.J.. (GRANDVILLE,J.J.)illus. LES FLEURS ANIMEES. Introduction par Alph. Karr, texte par Taxile Delord. Paris: Gabriel de Gonet, no date, 1st edition early printing (circa 1850?). Two volumes, 260, 236p. 4to (7 3/4 x 10 5/8"), publisher's black cloth with stunning pictorial covers and spine by Haarhaus, all edges gilt, scattered foxing else a VG+, bright copy. Featuring 50 magnificent hand-colored engraved plates, 2 hand-colored title pages with guards and 2 black & white engravings of botanicals. Each color plate showcases Grandville's marvelous humanized flowers. A bright and beautiful copy in a stunning trade binding.
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LES FLEURS ANIMEES
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