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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: Garnier Freres 1867, new edition with plates retouched for engraving and coloring by M. Maubert. Two volumes, 4to (7 1/2 x 10 1/2"), publisher's green leather spine and cloth, all edges gilt, 339,324p. Light cover rubbing, faint corner stain on first few leaves of volume one else a tight, clean VG+ set. Illustrated with 50 magnificent hand-colored plates plus 2 hand-colored title pages, each plate depicting Grandville's marvelous humanized flowers. Also includes many smaller black & white engravings as well as pictorial initials. A bright and beautiful copy.
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LES FLEURS ANIMEES
by GRANDVILLE, J. J
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- Used - 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
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