Grandville

1847 · 47353 — Paris.: Gabriel de Gonet Editeur. 1847. Original publisher's midnight blue percaline with elaborate polychromatic decoration and decoration in blind front boards with elaborate gilt decorative borders to surround large central vignettes with design 'Le Lin' page 237 after Grandville rear board with stylised vignette with anthropomorphic flower with snail and caterpillar smooth spine with elaborate gilt tooling yellow glazed endpapers a.e.g. 2 vols. 8vo. 268 x 182 mm. Half-titles with printer's credit verso elaborate engraved pictorial titles with additional colouring by hand and printed titles to each vol. printed text and 50 engraved plates all with additional colour by hand; the two parts of the supplement 'Botanique et Horticulture des Dames' with introduction by Karr and text by 'le Comte Foelix' with the two additional uncoloured engraved plates are also present. Grandville's 'Les Fleurs Animées' a very good copy in the second publisher's cartonnage.The second issue with separate pagination for each volume.'After 'Un Autre Monde' the fifty-two coloured engravings of 'Les Fleurs Animées' are the chief example of Grandville's efforts to penetrate to the meaning of objects like an 'intellectual miner' . Though the images in the book are of Grandville's time his manner of proceeding is that of an artist of the modern movement exploring the same subject through a sequence of slight but significant variations . A little world is created governed by its own laws . full of significance for Grandville and hence . the reader . '. Gordon Ray.'Les cartonnages et surtout les reliures de l'editeur . sont à rechercher.' Carteret.SR / BF 93 / 94 / 95; Ray 198; Rebeyrat 287; Carteret 286. Gabriel de Gonet, Editeur. hardcover