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184978256Paris: G. de Gonet 1849. Fine. G. de Gonet Paris s. d. 1849 19.50 x 28.50 cm relié G. de Gonet Paris 1849 19 x 285 cm publishers binding First edition of this posthumous work illustrated with 15 insert steel-engraved plates by Charles Geoffroy and enhanced in color including two frontispieces and a portrait of Grandville. Publisher's binding with full historiated cream boards first board illustrated browned endpapers as is usual for this period. Rare interior foxing. Superb publication arguably one of Grandville's most poetic in which as for his Fleurs animées the artist represents celestial bodies with young women. G. de Gonet hardcover
185047343Paris / Leipzig.: G. de Gonet Editeur . &c; Chez Charles Twietmeyer. 1850. Original publisher's midnight blue percaline with elaborate polychromatic decoration front boards with elaborate gilt decorative oval titles to surround central vignettes matching gilt vignettes to rear covers smooth spines with elaborate decorative tooling and titles in gilt all with additional colour heightening cream glazed endpapers vol. 1 and yellow vol. 2 a.e.g. 2 vols. Large 8vo. 270 x 184 mm. Half-titles with printer's credit verso engraved pictorial titles with additional colour by hand printed titles to each vol. and text illustrated with 31 engraved plates by Gavarni each with additional colour by hand and with the margins cut 'à la dentelle' and backed with pink paper final leaf of each vol. with 'Table des Matières'. The most desirable issue of 'Perles et Parures' with the hand-coloured plates on vélin 'découpés en dentelles' and in the original polychromatic percaline bindings.Published under the collective title 'Perles et Parures' these first editions of 'Les Joyaux Fantaisie' with 'Minéralogie des Dames' and 'Les Parures Fantaisie' with 'Histoire de la Mode' are here in the most desirable form with Gavarni's plates printed on vélin delicately hand- coloured and with the leaves stencil-cut to a lace pattern to form delicate frames and backed with pink paper. The two volumes contain jewel- and fashion-inspired texts with matching illustration as stated by Ray: 'They are studies of beautiful women fashionably attired . which were drawn in London'.' . more appealing than the normal edition is this special edition in which the steel engravings are printed and delicately colored on paper with borders cut to various lace patterns. So presented Gavarni's designs become fashion plates of the first order.' Ray.'La réunion des deux ouvrages avec les gravures à marges de dentelles est assez rare à recontrer.' Carteret.Ray 209A / 210; Carteret III 460 / 461. G. de Gonet, Editeur ... &c; Chez Charles Twietmeyer. hardcover
184979131Paris: G. de Gonet 1849. Fine. One of the rarest Romantic illustrated books in the publishers pictorial binding G. de Gonet Paris s. d. 1849 18 x 27 cm relié First edition of this posthumous work illustrated with 15 hand-coloured steel engravings by Charles Geoffroy including two frontispieces and a portrait of Grandville. Publishers full pictorial cloth binding the spine slightly faded signed ""Haaraus"" in the plate original yellow endpapers and pastedowns a little soiled at the margins. Discreet restoration to the head of the upper joint. Foxing to the half-title the first endpaper and some leaves also affecting the tissue guards and more lightly the plates. A splendid publication undoubtedly one of Granvilles most poetic works in whichas in his Fleurs animéesthe artist personifies the celestial bodies as young women. G. de Gonet hardcover
18496294Paris & Leipzig: G. De Gonet & Chez Charles Twietmeyer 1849. First edition. Two parts in one quarto volume 11 x 7 3/8 inches; 280 x 187 mm. 4 xvi 252; 4 186 2 pp. With added hand-colored wood-engraved vignette title in each part hand-colored engraved portrait of Grandville by Ch. Geoffroy and twelve hand-colored engraved plates eleven in the first part one in the second part by Ch. Geoffroy after Grandville all with original tissue-guards. Handsomely bound by Charles Meunier stamp-signed in black on front turn-in "Ch. Meunier. 1905". Full blue morocco covers decoratively rued in gilt with gray morocco inlaid borders enclosing an elaborate design of inlaid gray cream and green inlaid flowers with decorative gilt stems. Spine with four raised bands decoratively inlaid in various colored morocco's decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments. Decorative gilt board-edges gilt ruled turn-ins with inlaid gay morocco borders gray-green marbled endpapers top edge trimmed others uncut. Original printed paper wrappers and spine bound in at end. Unidentified bookplate "Nec Tu Semper Eris" You will not always be on verso of front flyleaf. Housed in the original blue leather edged patterned paper board slipcase. A wonderful copy of this lovely book with exquisite plates after Grandville. <br /> <br /> This posthumously published work Grandville died on March 17 1847 was originally issued in fifty parts the first part appearing in September 1849. "The compositions of this 'last fairy-tale' brilliantly engraved on steel by Charles Geoffroy and delicately colored form a fitting memorial to Grandville.The pattern which he follows is similar to that of Les fleurs animées. Nearly every plate has its beautiful lady clad in white and adorned with stars looming in the sky with varied scenes of earthly life below her. These designs Grandville's tranquil refuge from the turmoil that beset his mind are as charming as they are mysterious. Also included in the volume are an unsigned essay which remains the most considerable source of biographical information about Grandville and a fine portrait of him by Geoffroy I xvi with a border of his creations animals paying him tribute as well as his flower- and star-ladies" Ray. <br /> <br /> The talented Charles Meunier 1865-1940 was first apprenticed to a book binder at the eleven years old. After training with Marius-Michel he began his own binder in 1885 where he sought to be innovative and nontraditional. ". Drawing on traditional and modern techniques and forms of decoration Meuniere mixed classical punches. with newly fashionable incised and modeled leather panels. His output was prodigious; by 1897 he had produced roughly six hundred bindings" Art Nouveau and Art Deco Bookbinding.<br /> <br /> <br /> Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 200. Vicaire V col. 770. Grandville. Dessins Originaux p. 398. G. De Gonet & Chez Charles Twietmeyer unknown
