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2018x-303000855XSpringer-Verlag New York Inc 2018. Paperback. New. 456 pages. 9.25x6.10x1.03 inches. Springer-Verlag New York Inc paperback
0365429228.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. 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
B09524-3Paris/Leipzig G. de Gonet/ Charles Twietmeyer n.d. 1850. 2 300pp. Frontispiece and 15 steel engraved plates hors texte the whole finished by hand in colors and the plates themselves printed on doilies tipped onto pink guards the pink visible throughout the elaborately full percaline elaborately gilt and colored with designs on both covers and spine. 4to. Publishers original full percaline elaborately gilt and colored identically on each companion volume. A.e.g. Tissue guards. Later protective chemise. Together with: Les joyaux. Fantaisie par Gavarni. Texte par Méry. Minéralogie des dames par Cte. Foelix. Perles et Parues. 2 316pp. Frontispiece and 16 steel-engraved plates hors texte the whole finished by hand in colors and the plates printed on doilies in the same format as the foregoing. These books contain thirty-two engravings on steel by Geoffroy after Gavarni. They are studies of beautiful women fashionably attired for the most part which were drawn in London. Méry wrote the fantasy accompanying them to fit Gavarnis designs. Gordon Ray. After mentioning the ordinary edition of the work Ray proceeds to discuss this far more appealing.special edition in which the steel engravings are printed and delicately colored on paper with borders cut to various lace patterns. So presented Gavarnis designs became fashion plates of the first order. Intermittent light foxing mostly on the tissue guards and not the plates; a very desirable set the original bindings still brilliant. Paris/Leipzig (G. de Gonet/ Charles Twietmeyer), n.d. [1850]. unknown
