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1869224Gérard Jean-Ignace-Isidore 1803 – 1847 Grandville <i>Les Métamorphoses du Jour par Grandville Accompagnées d'un Texte par MM. Albéric Second Louis Lurine Clément Caraguel Taxile Delord H. De Beaulieu Louis Huart Charles Monselet Julien Lemer Précédées d'une Notice sur Grandville par M. Charles Blanc. Nouvelle Édition Revue et complétée pour le texte par M. Jules Janin Augmentée de Nombreux Culs-de-Lampe Têtes de Pages Etc. </i>Paris : Garnier Frères Libraires-Éditeurs 6 rue des Saints-Pères et Palais-Royal 215 1869. 8vo. Collation : ii; frontispiece title-page ii ; lxiii ; 480 pages. Bound in half red morocco on marbled boards. Five raised bands. Top page edge gilded. 71 full-page hand-colored wood-block plates bound in. This edition contains the same plates as the edition of 1854 and in the same order but with these differences: 1 They do not have the name of the printer on them; 2 A majority of these plates are signed in the plate "J.-J. Grandville"; 3 These are printed on heavier paper; 4 On a great number of the plates the legends are modified or augmented. Some light foxing but still a very good untrimmed copy in a very secure binding. Enjoying great success during Grandville's lifetime <i>Les Métamorphoses du Jour </i> put human language and human behavior into animals thus creating a moral satire of human behavior. <i>Les Métamorphoses du Jour </i>first appeared in 1836. See: Vicaire Vol. V 787 – 788 ; Cartaret III : 284-285. Garnier Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs, 6, rue des Saints-Pères, et Palais-Royal, 215 books
1975255677Paris: Hubschmid 1975. hardcover. fine/fine. Introduction by Jean Adhemar. Profusely illustrated in black & white with a few in color. 2 volumes together 1600 pp. thick 8vo black cloth d.w. Paris: Arthur Hubschmid 1975. Fine.<br/><br/> Hubschmid unknown books
1842000782Paris: J. Hetzel et Paulin 1842. First Edition. Half Morocco. Very Good. Grandville. 4to. 201 wood engraved plates of anthopomorphic animals many humorous all imaginative and winsome. 386 viii 390 vi pp. Interiors are tight and pages are generally clean. Half red leather only minimal sized corner pieces with ornamented spines in typical French style of period. Boards have a fair amount of soilage and/or rubbing. Leather spine of volume 1 has repair in upper tip. A bit rough looking along gutter of this volume. Still overall a very good set. <br/><br/> J. Hetzel et Paulin unknown books
184219451842. Grandville. Grandvilleillus. VIE PRIVEE ET PUBLIQUE DES ANIMAUX by Balzac et al. Paris 1842 1st ed. 2 vols 4to. Original pictorial boards 386 and 390pp. plus tables of contents 210 illustrations on engraved plates hors texte and 120 vignettes in-texte. One of the great illustrated books. Social satire in which animals play human roles. Grandville's mastery at presenting animals with convincing human expressions poses and costumes has been imitated but never equalled. Very unusual in the pictorial boards. Light wear to the board edges and hinges expert repair to inner hinges else a very nice copy. hardcover books
1867001538Paris: Garnier Freres 1867. Quarter Morocco over Pebbled Cloth. Very Good . Grandville. 4to French text. 667 pp total. 50 hand-colored plates of women personified as flowers 2 hand-colored frontispieces 2 black and white plates and also black and white text illustrations. Probably Grandville's most famous work and one that epitomizes best his fantastical imagination. Plates and text clean and attractive. Quarter red morocco with blindstamped red pebbled cloth covers which perfectly match appears full red leather. Raised spine bands and gilt. Rubbing around gutters and the raised bands and some typical shelfwear besides. Endpapers are a silky moire material and they have some soiling. Gilt foreedges. <br/><br/> Garnier Freres hardcover books
18491674981849. GRANDVILLE J.J. Les Etoiles. By Joseph Mery. 4 xvi 252; 4 186 2 pp. Illustrated with 15 hand-coloured engravings. 8vo. 255 x 176 mm bound in publisher's elaborately gilt decorated cloth binding. Paris: G. de Gonet 1849. A fine copy of this charming work Grandville's last book of illustrations. It actually consists of two parts each having its own title-page but the parts are always found together. There are fifteen steel engravings by Grandville all with delicate original hand-coloring. Despite occasional minimal foxing the impressions are clean--an unusual state for French books of this type from this period. "The compositions of the `last fairy-tale' brilliantly engraved on steel by Charles Geoffroy and delicately colored form a fitting memorial to Grandville. They show that his powers remained unimpaired to the end of his short career" Ray. A wonderful fresh copy in a dazzling example of the publisher's binding rare thus. Ray French 200. hardcover books
18491675811849. GRANDVILLE J.J. Les Etoiles. By Joseph Mery. 4 xvi 252 pp.; 4 186 2 pp. With 15 hand-colored engravings. 8vo. 255 x 176 mm bound in the original publisher's wrappers in a new blue half moocco folding box. Paris: G. de Gonet 1849. A fine copy of this charming work Grandville's last book of illustrations preserved as issued in the originalillustrated wrappers. It actually consists of two parts each having its own title-page but the parts are always found together. There are fifteen steel engravings by Grandville all with delicate original hand-coloring. Despite occasional foxing the impressions are extremely clean--an unusual state for French books of this type from this period. "The compositions of the `last fairy-tale' brilliantly engraved on steel by Charles Geoffroy and delicately colored form a fitting memorial to Grandville. They show that his powers remained unimpaired to the end of his short career" Ray. Despite damage to the fragile original spine this is a wonderful fresh copy with just insignificant foxing to a couple of pages. Extremely rare in the original wrappers. Ray 200. unknown books
18429103Two volumes. Paris: J. Hentzel et Paulin 1842. Two volumes 4to 8 386 6; 4 390 6. Frontispiece engraved head and tail pieces and vignettes in each volume and with a total of 201 full page wood-engraved plates after Grandville. Original publisher's full red morocco stamped in gold on backstrips and both covers. Backstrips slightly faded crowns repaired a little rubbing to extremities hinges cracked but generally a clean copy in very good condition. § First edition. Of great rarity in the publisher's de luxe binding thus. Of it Gordon Ray writes: "The moving force behind this book was its publisher P. J. Hentzel who himself contributed many chapters under the pseudonym P. J. Stahl. Hentzel's primary objective as he remarks in his preface was 'to give words to Grandville's marvelous people-like animals and to join our pen with his pencil thereby coming to his assistance in criticizing the aberrations of our epoch and by preference among these aberrations those which are of every period and every country.'. Bouchot described the result as the best satire on French manners during the middle of the century." Ray: "Art of the French Illustrated Book" #194. Also Carteret III 552-559; Vicaire VII: 405-416; Brivois p. 370; Sander 312. J. Hentzel et Paulin unknown books
012076Very Good. Print. A hand-colored print by J. J. Grandville. No date probably mid-19th century. Card paper taped into a large mat frame with shadowing under the frame only on the margins. One chip light soil. Captioned "XLVI. Une vilaine commission." with signature on plate. J. J. Grandville born Jean-Ignace Isidore Gerard 1803-1847 was a famous French cartoonist known for his satirical caricature anthropomorphizing animals. His hand-colored lithographs were printed in book form and this plate has a binding edge. ; Color Illustrations; 6 3/4" x 10 1/2" . unknown books
186190513London: T. Nelson and Sons 1861. Hardcover. Good. black & white illustrations 56p. Original purple embossed cloth. 21cm. Cover unevenly faded with some spotting and wear. Contents have some scattered foxing and other wear. Stain on inner margin on one leaf. Grandville. a French caricaturist enjoyed putting the heads of animals on the bodies of humans. It is unclear to us who wrote the text which accompanies the illustrations. An earlier edition appears to have been published by Bogue in London in 1852. <br/><br/> T. Nelson and Sons hardcover books
1883731741883. GRANDVILLE J.-J. illus. CHOIX DE FABLES DE LA FONTAINE ALBUM POUR LES ENFANTS avec de nombreuses illustrations par J.-J. GRANDVILLE et des gravures en chromolithographie. Paris: Garnier Freres 1883. iv 73 pp. Small bookseller's label to ffep. Some foxing to text and occasional soil to margins. Bookblock is whole but loose in binding which is soiled foxed and edgeworn. As is. unknown books
1849247352Paris: G. de Gonet 1849. First. hardcover. near fine. Grandville Jean-Jacques. Including the 2 extra illustrated title pages and portrait page there are 15 fantastic engraved plates by Grandville each delicately hand-colored the protective tissues are discolored but the plates are spotless. 4 xvi 252; 4 186 2 pages. Imperial 8vo contemporary morocco-backed pebbled boards with ornately gilt spine all edges gilt. Paris: G. de Gonet & Leipzig: Chez Charles Twietmeyer 1849. First edition. A near fine copy of this uncommon book.<br/><br/> Published posthumously this is Grandville's last work which was done in 1847 just before he died at the insane asylum in Vanves.<br/><br/> G. de Gonet unknown books
13733N.p. Paris n.d. Pen-and-ink drawing on paper signed lower right corner "Grandville". 1 vols. Image size 5 1/8 x 3 inches. Matted and framed. Grandville J.-J. Pen-and-ink drawing on paper signed lower right corner "Grandville". 1 vols. Image size 5 1/8 x 3 inches. Grandville Drawing. Dancers at a costume ball all of whom wear cat-masks. Fine little sketch by one of the great illustrators of the nineteenth century. unknown books
7588Paris Gabriel De Gonet 1847. 2 vols. royal 8vo iv 339 5; iv 321 5 pp. 2 hand-colored additional engraved titles 50 hand-colored engraved plates many heightened with gum arabic 2 plain engraved plates numerous wood-engraved textual ornaments. Original publisher’s green cloth blocked in gilt backstrip gilt moiré endpapers all edges gilt. End papers a little soiled occasional light foxing to the text pages plates clean a very good set very rare in the publisher’s de luxe binding. § First edition first issue with separate pagination of the two parts. A lovely set of one of Grandville's best works in the publisher's de luxe binding. Of this book his first biographer wrote: "The Fleurs Animées are the very thought of Grandville; they were his favorite work the work into the execution of which he put all that was in him of poetic and gracious originality of dexterity of mind and observation of that prodigious perspicacity which made divine affinities hitherto unperceived by anyone and discover new worlds.†Two unsigned plates in the introduction by Alphonse Karr are entitled “Botanique des Dames†and “Horticulture des Dames.†Gordon Ray Art of the French Illustrated Book 198: “A little world is created governed by its own laws. "The Fleurs Animées are the very thought of Grandville; they were his favorite work hardcover books
183822198Paris: H. Fournier Aine et Furne Et Cie 1838. Hardcover. Three quarter red morocco and marbled boards marbled endpapers. Fine. 2 Vols. 279 319 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. First printing with illustrations by Grandville containing 450 vignettes wood engravings and four full-page wood engravings. GORDON N. RAY 192. Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700 to 1914. "Frontispiece on `papier de chine'.Grandville adds many ingenious touches of his own to Swift's narrative.Berardi VII 206 claimed that the `Voyages de Gulliver' was Grandville's best book as well as the definitive visual rendering of Swift for French readers." CARTERET III 578. VICAIRE VIII 718. Interior contents fresh clean and bright. Tiny French book label Vol I. paste-down. H. Fournier Aine et Furne Et Cie hardcover books
184721458Paris: Gabriel De Gonet 1847. First edition. leather_bound. Full dark green calf. Aeg. Very good. 2 vols. Grandville Jean Ignace Isadore. 262 263-364 IV132 pages. 26.5 x 18.5 cm Hand-colored wood engraved title 50 hand-colored engraved plates by Geoffroy after Grandville two unsigned engraved botanical plates. Introduction by Alphonse Karr text by Taxile Delord. GORDON N. RAY 198. "Fleurs animees" were his favorite work."the work into the execution of which he put all that was in him of poetic and gracious originality." Ray also noted Grandville's technique was much like modern artists exploring the same subject "through a sequence of slight but significant variations." Plates bright and clean some slight text toning to a handful of leaves two centimeter dampstain at head not effecting text or plates Vols. I-II. Raised bands spine panels richly gilt in floral motifs two red leather spine labels printed in gilt inner dentelles marbled endpapers modest surface wear. Gabriel De Gonet unknown books
1829401761Paris: Bulla; and Brussels: Borella 1829. From the Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow. Oblong folio 250 x 338 mm. Scarce one-leaf letterpress introduction signed Achille Comte. 72 hand-colored lithographic plates by Joseph Langlumé after Grandville. Early-20th-century blue half morocco spine gilt-lettered. Some occasional foxing plate 31 shaved at outer margin possibly inserted from another copy. Provenance: purchased from Marlborough Rare Books 2004. FIRST EDITION OF GRANDVILLE'S FIRST MAJOR SUCCESS. "Hélas! Hélas! Quand donc les humains seront-ils aussi vrai aussi naifs aussi charmants que ces illustrations de Granville" Carteret. In this series Grandville satirizes the vices of contemporary society by substituting human heads with those of animals. Plates 1-71 are numbered and published by Bulla in Paris; plate 72 unnumbered but with the number added in manuscript it was published by Borella in Brussels. There was another suppressed plate not present in this copy. According to Renonciat eight plates are in the first state and four with titles in French and English. While later impressions of this work are common the first edition is quite scarce. Carteret III pp. 282-4; Ray French Illustrated Books 132. <br/><br/> Bulla; and Brussels: Borella unknown books
1847201228New York: Martin 1847. First. hardcover. very good. Grandville. 2 volumes. Extra illustrated title pages and 52 additional steel engraved plates 50 with delicate hand coloring and featuring Grandville's delightful anthropomorphized plants each protected with tissue. 4 iv 3-278; 281-385 4 152 8pp. Short 4to handsomely bound in contemporary full red morocco with a floral gilt border on covers spines a bit darkened with leather crackled; well-rubbed at joints and corners but sound and attractive. New York: R. Martin 1847. A very good copy internally fine.<br/><br/> 3 titles bound in 2 volumes: The Flowers Personified 385pp; Modern Botany for Ladies and Ladies' Horticulture 152pp; Supplement to the "Ladies' Botany" 8pp.<br/><br/> Martin unknown books
18451685911845. GRANDVILLE J.J. Cent Proverbes. With text by Amadee Achard Taxile Delord Emile Forguesvand Arnould Fremy. 4 398 2 pp. Illustrated with wood engraved frontispiece 50 full page wood engravings hor-texte plus head-and-tail pieces by Grandville. 8vo. 228 x 140 mm bound in publisher's polychrome cloth binding. Paris: Fournier 1845. A fine copy of this delightful Grandville work preserved in the scarce publisher's polychrome binding. While this book lacks the surreal qualities of Un Autre Monde the presence of a substantial number of anthropomorphic illustrations in the manner of those which had appeared in Scenes de la vie privee et public des animaux elevate it above the typical "romantique" book and make it a worthy addition to the Grandville oeuvre. Some scattered foxing. Renonciat 178-183. hardcover books
1870271051Paris: Garnier Freres 1870. hardcover. very good. Grandville J.J. 50 hand colored plates with tissue guards many engraved black-and-white text illustrations. 551pp. thick 8vo green cloth gilt-decorated spine a.e.g.; foxing throughout the text the color plates are quite clean. Paris: Garnier Freres 1870. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Garnier Freres unknown books
18431685101843. GRANDVILLE J.J. Petites Misères de la Vie humaine par Old Nick Paul-Émile Daurand Forgues et Grandville. 4 viii 392 pp. Illustrated woodcut frontispiece and 49 full-page woodcut plates and woodcuts in text throughout by Grandville. 8vo. 230 x 145 mm bound in publisher's gilt-stamped cloth. Paris: H. Fournier 1843. A fine copy in the rare publisher's cloth of one of Grandville's lesser known works but one that contains intimations of his masterpiece Un Autre Monde of the following year. Presumably because the surreal illustrations which were to become his trademark are in the distinct minority that this books has not been given the credit it is due. Occasional foxing but overall a clean copy. hardcover books
04848Paris: Gustave Havard 1854. Grandville's Beast-Headed People<br/><br/>GRANDVILLE J.J. illustrator. Les Métamorphoses du jour. Accompagnées d'un texte par MM. Albéric Second Louis Lurine Clément Caraguel Taxile Delord H. de Beaulieu Louis Huart Charles Monselet Julien Lemer. Précédées d'une notice sur Grandville par M. Charles Blanc. Paris: Gustave Havard 1854. <br/><br/>First edition to include the text by Second and others. Octavo 10 7/6 x 6 5/8 inches; 265 x 168 mm. 4 xxviii 283 1 blank pp. Seventy hand-colored wood-engraved plates by Mouard Sotain and others after the drawings by Grandville. <br/><br/>Contemporary quarter red hand-grained morocco over marbled boards. Smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt sprinkled edges marbled endpapers. Preliminary leaves and text with light to moderate foxing. The superb hand-colored plates fresh and clean with just a few scattered marginal spots. Aside from the foxing to the text this is really good copy with wonderful coloring of the most famous work by this master of "bitter burlesque" Ray p. 198. <br/><br/>These famous drawings of beast-headed people "which established Grandville's early style of bitter burlesque" Ray p. 198 first appeared in an album of hand-colored lithographs printed by Langlumé in 1829 and reprinted in 1836. This 1854 edition is the first to include the accompanying text.<br/><br/>"Lust gluttony anger and the other deadly sins are stigmatized now with the blow of a hammer now with the thrust of a stiletto; while the foibles and humors of mankind also receive due attention. Throughout the series Grandville's choice of beast-heads is inspired; and the force of his conceptions and the wit of his captions rarely falter" Ray p. 198.<br/><br/>Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 132 describing the 1829 edition. Vicaire V cols. 783-787. Paris: Gustave Havard, 1854 unknown books
04602Paris & Leipzig : G. De Gonet Éditeur & Chez Charles Twietmeyer 1849. Grandville's "Last Fairy-Tale" <br/>In a Superb Inlaid Binding by Charles Meunier<br/><br/>GRANDVILLE J.J. illustrator MÉRY Joseph. MEUNIER Charles binder. Les Étoiles. Dernière féerie par J.-J. Grandville. Texte par Méry. Astronomie des dames par le Comte Foelix. Paris: G. De Gonet Éditeur & Leipzig: Chez Charles Twietmeyer 1849. <br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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/>"The compositions of this ‘last fairy-tale' brilliantly engraved on steel by Charles Geoffroy and delicately colored form a fitting memorial to Grandville. They show that his powers remained unimpaired to the end of his short career. Grandville told his wife on the day he began these designs: ‘for too long I have kept my eyes lowered to the earth; now I want to lift them to the heavens' p. ix. 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/>This posthumously published work Grandville died on March 17 1847 was originally issued in fifty parts the first part appearing in September 1849. <br/><br/>Charles Meunier 1865-1940 began his apprenticeship as a bookbinder at age eleven. Five years later at age sixteen he joined master binder Marius-Michel's workshop. He soon grew weary of producing traditional bindings and established his own bindery in 1885 at the tender age of twenty years old. CM was thought to be innovative and instinctive with great reserves of energy and undeniable artistic talent. 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 p. 194.<br/><br/>Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 200. Vicaire V col. 770. Grandville. Dessins Originaux p. 398. Paris [&] Leipzig : G. De Gonet, Éditeur [&] Chez Charles Twietmeyer, 1849 unknown books
18441675781844. GRANDVILLE J.J. Un Autre Monde. Transformations visions incarnations. et autres choses. By Taxile Delord. 4 295 1 pp. Half-title and title-page printed in red. Illustrated with 133 woodcut vignettes 15 full-page woodcuts and 36 hand-coloured plates. Large 8vo. 270 x 195 mm bound in contemporary full decorated morocco with the original front and rear wrappers preserved. Paris: H. Fournier 1844. A desirable copy of the first edition of Grandville's masterpiece. One of the spectacular surreal illustrated books of the nineteenth century. "In this remarkable book of the boldest possible originality Grandville dared to reveal his dream world to the public" Ray. The illustrations expose an imagination which was unlike anything that appeared in print before. Ray points out that the designs of Grandville certainly influenced Tenniel when he created the characters for Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. In this copy all the hand-coloured plates have captions in white letter as per Rebeyrat except for that of the "Bal Masqué" and "Apocalypse du Ballet" which are in black letter. Despite some staining and foxing to the text pages throught this is still an outstanding copy in a contemporary binding preserving the rare celebrated front and rear wrappers. Exteremely rare thus. Carteret III 285 with reproduction. Ray French 196 with reproduction. Rebeyrat Catalogue bibliographique et bibliophilique in: J.-J. Grandville p. 287. Sello Grandville: Das Gesamt Werk 1167-1351. unknown books
93499Paris: Gernier Freres. hardcover. very good. Frontispiece decorated half-title sepia vignette on title page numerous black and white engravings by J.J. Grandvill. 520pp. large thick 4to full brown morocco raised bands gilt-title on spine t.e.g. inner dentelles; inner hinge repaired. Paris: Garnier Freres n.d. ca. 1880. Nouvelle Edition. Very good .<br/><br/> Gernier Freres unknown books
