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GRANDVILLE, JJ; Cervantes, Miguel de; JJ (JEAN- J J J JBiblio.com

Don Quichotte. II Vol.

GrandvilleBiblio.com

LES METAMORPHOSES DU JOUR. WITH AN ORIGINAL PREPARATORY DRAWING

186954121869. Grandvilleillus. LES METAMORPHOSES DU JOUR. The book together with AN ORIGINAL PREPARATORY DRAWING FOR PLATE III. Texts by various writers. Paris 1869 1st was 1829. 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards with the original wraps bound-in t.e.g. lxiii 480pp. 71 hand-colored lithographed plates Title 70 plates plus a profusion of wood-engraved in-text illustrations. Near Fine inside and out with the plates very fresh. Offered together with an original preparatory drawing for Plate III "Tu t'entetes a jouer avec Monsieur tu vois bien qu'il retourne le roi a chaque coup." Pen & Ink over Black Chalk. 5 x 7 1/8 in.; 127 x 182 mm Signed lower right "Grandville." The drawing shows the left two thirds of the published plate the two figures conversing the fox playing cards and the table with the cloth and the lamp in finished form; a female figure is drawn lightly in pencil seated on the other side of the table playing cards with the fox. In the published drawing this figure has been changed and a fifth figure to the right has been added. The design of the lamp has also been modified. In Fine condition. Original artwork by Grandville is uncommon and a piece showing a stage in the creative development of a work of such fame and importance as Les Metamorphoses is particularly interesting and appealing. $3500.00 Grandville JEAN-IGNACE-ISIDORE GERARD 1803-1847 was a caricaturist best known for presenting animals in human form and using them to satirize the French social and political milieu of his period. His reputation was established with Metamorphoses du Jour in 1829 and he went on to illustrate numerous other satirical books as well as literary classics. He also drew for the humor magazines of the period "Charivari" and "Caricature." His work has continued to influence artists down to the present day. paperback

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GRANDVILLE, (Jean-Ignace-Everard Gerard). Delord, Taxile & Alphonse Karr (Intro).Biblio.com

Les Fleurs Animées par J.-J. Grandville.

184748669Paris.: Gabriel de Gonet Editeur. 1847. Full contemporary scarlet morocco by Corfmat with his signature to spine boards with gilt rules to enclose large central stamp with ornate decorative motif composed of flowers urns trellises and so on surmounted by a bird eating from an urn banded spine tooled in gilt and with gilt title in five compartments turn-ins with elaborate decor edges ruled in gilt cream silk moiré doublures and matching endpapers a.e.g. 2 vols. in 1. Large 8vo. 276 x 198 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. The first issue of the first edition of Grandville's 'Les Fleurs Animées' in a splendid contemporary binding by Corfmat.'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.The first issue of 'Les Fleurs Animées' is indicated by continuous pagination throughout the two volumes and is characterised too by the vivid colouring by hand of the illustrations. The present copy is bound by Corfmat his signature is stamped to the spine a contemporary of Grandville's active between 1825 and 1860 who produced a number of bindings for the Queen of France Marie-Amélie wife of Louis-Philippe and others of the House of Orléans. A pencil note to the initial blank suggests that on the basis of Corfmat's work for Queen Marie-Amélie this copy may be that of the Queen herself although there is no other evidence for the assertion.SR / BF 93 / 94 / 95; Ray 198; Rebeyrat 287; Carteret 286; see Sophie Malavieille's 'Reliures et Cartonnages d'Editeur en France au XIXe Siècle'. Gabriel de Gonet, Editeur. hardcover

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GRANDVILLE, J-J (Jean-Ignace-Everard Gerard).Biblio.com

L'amour croise des races. Agence Matrimoniale.

183448679Paris. 1834. Watercolour over sepia ink with areas of highlight in black ink annotations to verso in pencil and purple collector's stamp mounted to larger sheet of stiff card. Image size: 155 x 185 mm; sheet size: 325 x 380 mm. PROVENANCE: By descent from Louise Fischer sister of Henriette Grandville's wife. Grandville's original preparatory watercolour sketch for the print 'L'amour croise des races. Agence matrimoniale' published in Le Charivari January 9th 1834.Grandville's original watercolour differs only very slightly from the published image but the changes - the closing of the beak of the figure on the right of the image the closer grouping of all three figures and the difference in the text on the poster at right: 'Traitement de la gourmet' in the watercolour version 'Joconde ou les courures d'aventure' in the final version - all suggest that the watercolour preceded the published version.The published version also features the caption: 'Ici on fait luire le flambeau de l'hyménée dans toutes les classes de la société. Assortiment varié de vieux célibataires de vielles douairières de fils de famille etc. etc. Zèle discrétion loyauté et bon gout.'Le Charivari founded and published by Philipon and Aubert was a daily newspaper which first appeared in 1832. Like La Caricature Le Charivari featured the work of Daumier and Grandville - Grandville contributed nearly forty images in the first few years of publication - but was at least in its initial form less controversial. It was also a means for Philipon and Aubert to offset some of the financial losses they accrued from the fines imposed by the government for their more political publications. Unlike La Caricature Le Charivari continued daily publication throughout the nineteenth-century and into the twentieth-century. In 1936 it switched to a weekly format before ceasing publication the following year.Sell 256. unknown

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Grandville, JJ [Jean Jacques] J JBiblio.com

The Flowers Personified; Being a Translation of Grandville’s Les Fleurs Animées

1847988New York: R. Martin 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. 3 vols. in 1. 1st American edition in English. Exceptionally detailed bespoke contemporary full morocco signed on the cover by Jill Smith intricately inlaid white silk moiré framed endpapers bearing a gilt inscription from a husband to his wife on their wedding day Jan. 1 1859 probably dating the binding as 1858 all edges gilt light wear to covers neatly rebacked small chips to the corners of the vignette title page a trace of foxing but printed on paper vastly superior to what was general on American books in 1847 and still near fine. 50 unprecedented engraved plates of anthropomorphic plants simultaneously poetical and satirical dressed in flower and leaf enhanced French couture of the day when seamstresses were independent hired individually and came to the customer. The 50 plates are professionally and in this copy artistically hand colored the publisher’s choice of the painters he employed varies from copy to copy with 2 additional botanical plates in black and white all as called for and as issued. Complete with the errata the contents the Modern Botany for Ladies The Cultivation of Flowers Ladies Horticulture and the Supplement to Ladies Botany. The book is a famed one the binding on this copy is an additional beautification. It’s the quality sometimes seen on French editions of Grandville’s works but not encountered on his translations into English. And for a mid–century binding on an American book it’s extraordinary. Collation: 385pp. 152p. 8p. In these illustrations Grandville followed in the steps of the likes of Bosch Bruegel and Goya as ancestors in the first hazy light before sunrise of what became the grotesque in surrealism more evident to me in the 2nd of the 3 plates opposite page 136 the one opposite page 230 the one opposite page 252 and that opposite page 261. And these were 18 years before Tenniel’s assault on reality in Alice in Wonderland and 70 years before surrealism was named when it hatched out of Dada in the 1920s. Grandville’s other major works including The Animals and Another World combined with this one to express the varieties and possibilities of the concept and marked him as an inventive genius without peer in his time. R. Martin hardcover

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GRANDVILLE, (Jean-Ignace-Everard Gerard).Biblio.com

Les Métamorphoses du Jour par Grandville. Accompagnées d'un Texte . &c.

185447345Paris.: Gustave Havard. 1854. Original publisher's midnight blue percaline with elaborate polychromatic decoration front board with title 'MÉTAMORPHOSES' and credit 'Par J. J. Grandville' large gilt stamp reproducing plate XXXVI 'Ma femme est sortie ma petite chatte . ' with additional colour rear board with plate XXIV 'Oh! le monstre d'homme . ' spine with elaborate gilt decoration and titles elaborate tooling in blind to boards and spine yellow glazed endpapers a.e.g. Large 8vo. 268 x 178 mm. Half-title with printer's credit verso printed title with monochrome vignette by Grandville 13 leaves with biographical notice leaf with 'Oeuvres de Grandville' and 70 engraved plates by Grandville each with additional colouring by hand final two leaves with 'Table'. The posthumous first edition in book form with accompanying text of Grandville's 'Les Métamorphoses du Jour' in the original publisher's binding.Sixty-seven of these plates - three are added from other series by Grandville - originally appeared in album form in 1829 and this version published 17 years after Grandville's death is both the first edition in octavo and the first to be accompanied with text. The plates were engraved on wood by Desperet for the first oblong folio edition the plates were lithographs with additional colouring by hand and then 'illustrated' with a satirical text inspired by Grandville's plate by one of a number of authors. The pantheon of 'illustrators' were: Albéric Second Louis Lurine Clément Caraguel Taxile Delord H. de Beaulieu Louis Huart Charles Monselet and Julien Lemer; Charles Blanc's biographical notice is accompanied by a bibliography of Grandville's illustrated books.''Les Métamorphoses du Jour' ont été l'idée mère de toutes les créations humano-bestiales dont on a tant abusé depuis et resteront incontestablement comme le chef-d'oeuvre de Grandville . Nous a offrons au public une oeuvre qui entre pour la première fois dans le domaine de la librairie une oeuvre inconnue de la génération nouvelle . '. From the original prospectus for hte work.Carteret III 284 / 285; Rebeyrat 288; SR / BF 104. Gustave Havard. hardcover

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GRANDVILLE, (Jean-Ignace-Everard Gerard).Biblio.com

'Affiche de Librairie' for 'Les Fleurs Animées par J. J. Grandville Monologue et Epilogue . On Souscrit Ici'.

184747800Paris.: Gabriel de Gonet. 1847. Poster. 448 x 277 mm. Single sheet of unwatermarked cream wove paper with printed text and hand-coloured illustration recto only traces of folds printer's credit at lower right. The original publicity poster with a hand-coloured vignette for Grandville's 'Les Fleurs Animées'.A very good example of this very scarce poster announcing the forthcoming publication of Grandville's remarkable anthropomorphic series 'Les Fleurs Animées'. As with many of Grandville's illustrated books 'Les Fleurs Animées' was published as a serial with each 'livraison' available for 50 centimes 'coloriée'.The vignette for the poster within a frame 130 x 110 mm corresponds to Grandville's 'Tulipe' the hand-coloured illustration for 'La Sultane Tulipia' in volume I of the book; for the poster the earlier version the vignette also coloured by hand is smaller and reversed to the book version but with subtle differences to the later version. The poster illustration is credited in the image to Grandville and to 'PORRET. BLANADET.' who did also the pictorial title for volume 1 while the book version is credited to Grandville and to Charles Geoffroy.The poster printed in Paris by Imprimerie Lacour et Cie. in rue St-Hyacinthe-St-Michel who also printed the livraisons provides all detail: 'UN BEAU VOLUME / grand in-8º. / PUBLIÉ PAR / LIVRAISONS COLORIÉES / à 30 centimes. / L'OUVRAGE COMPLET / formera 60 à 70 livraisons / IL PARAIT / UNE OU DEUX LIVRAISONS PAR SEMAINE.'The poster itself is announced in the Bibliographie de la France ou Journal Général de l'Imprimerie et de la Librairie &c.' for 1846 as: 'Les Fleurs animées par J. J. Grandville affiche: dessin destiné à être affiché dans l'intérieur des établissements de librairie pour annoncer la publication d'un ouvrage ayant le même titre.'Antoine-Auguste Renouard's collection of 'affiches de libraire' featured a poster for 'Les Fleurs Animées' but we have been unable to ascertain whether it was this poster. Another poster for 'Les Fleurs Animées' was certainly issued likely at a later date as it announces '100 livraisons' each priced '25 centimes'. Gabriel de Gonet. unknown

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[Fine Binding - Meunier, Charles] Grandville, JJ, (illustrator); Joseph Mery J JBiblio.com

Les Étoiles

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. 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. 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. 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

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GRANDVILLE, (Jean-Ignace-Everard Gerard).Biblio.com

Voyage pour l'Eternité. Service Général des Omnibus Accélerés. Départ à Toute Heure et de Tous les Points du Globe.

183047366Paris.: Chez Bulla et Che Aubert. 1830. Loose as issued with the original lithograph cover. Oblong small folio. 272 x 364 mm. Lithograph title / wrapper with monochrome vignette by Grandville on pink wove paper 348 x 268 mm and nine monochrome lithographs on cream wove paper with printed caption / title beneath and numbered at upper right each with additional colouring by hand and heightened with gum arabic all the lithographs save the first are signed J. Grandville. The complete series of Grandville's very scarce unfinished suite of satirical and moralistic hand-coloured lithographs.Planned originally to have 23 plates the publisher Bulla stopped publication after the ninth plate because of the political events of July 1830. As noted by Clive Getty: 'Comme dans 'Les Métamorphoses du Jour' Grandville a probablement glissé quelques caricatures politiques parmi les planches moralisantes du 'Voyage pour l'Eternité où apparaissent vraisemblablement des personnages du gouvernement de Charles X.'Grandville took the idea for this set from Holbein's 'Dance of Death' series bringing the scenes up to date. Here according to Grandville death works in a pharmacy mixing drugs in the army as a prostitute chef chimney sweep and so on.Honoré de Balzac wrote see 'La Silhouette' Vol. 2 Livraison 4 pg. 28: 'De la profondeur philosophique et de la caricature voilà ce qu'on ne fait qu'en France et qu'a Paris. M. Grandville avait donné de la bêtise aux hommes de l'esprit aux animaux il vient de donner de la gaieté à la mort.'The plates are titled as follows:No. 1 - 'C'est ici le dernier relais'.No. 2 - 'Vais-je bien . vous avancez horriblement!'No. 3 - 'Monsieur le Baron on vous demande . Dites que je n'y suis pas.'No. 4 - 'Soyez tranquille j'ai un Garçon qui ne se trompe jamais.'No. 5 - 'Voilà Messieurs un plat de mon métier.'No. 6 - 'Voulez vous monter chez moi mon petit Monsieur vous n'en serez pas faché aller.'No. 7 - ' . pour une Consultation docteur j'en suis j'vous suis . '.No. 8 - 'Oui Madame ce sera bien la proménade la plus délicieuse! . une voiture dans le dernier goût! . un Cheval qui fend l'air et le meilleur Groom de France! . '.No. 9 - 'Première Etape.'Rahir 447; Rebeyrat 292; SR / BF 14; see Getty 152. Chez Bulla et Che Aubert. unknown

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GRANDVILLE, (Jean-Ignace-Everard Gerard). Various AuthorsBiblio.com

Scènes de la Vie Privée et Publique des Animaux.

184247346Paris.: J. Hetzel et Paulin Editeurs. 1842. Original publisher's maroon morocco boards ruled in blind with matching gilt vignettes to front and rear boards and spines titles gilt to spines cream moiré endpapers two original part wrappers retained a.e.g. 2 vols. Large 8vo. 270 x 194 mm. Each vol. with half-title title and frontispiece and a total of 199 hors-texte monochrome plates as well as numerous monochrome vignettes all engraved by Brevière after Grandville. The first edition of Grandville's anthropomorphic masterpiece in the deluxe publisher's binding.This exceptional copy bound in full maroon morocco features all of the plates in the first issue as per Carteret and the first issue of the binding incorporating the special tools after Grandville's designs but without the additional decorative tools to the corners of the central panels of the front boards. The legend 'Badigeonographie générale des murailles de la France et de l'étranger' to the frontispiece later removed by the censor is present and four of the original yellow paper part wrappers the two volumes were issued in 100 parts are retained. Grandville's inspirational illustrations were engraved on wood by Brévière coted by Ray as 'the one craftsman whose renderings of his work Grandville refused to criticize'.The twenty-nine tales by various authors of the Scènes de la Vie Privée et Publique des Animaux are accompanied by J. J. Grandville's wonderful anthropomorphic illustrations. The tales themselves are by the foremost authors of the day with four by Honoré de Balzac Peines de Coeur d'une Chatte Anglaise Guide-Ane à l'Usage des Animaux qui Veulent Parvenir aux Honneurs Voyage d'un Lion d'Afrique à Paris and Les Amours de Deux Bêtes as well as tales by George Sand Voyage d'un Moineau à Paris Paul Bernard Les Animaux Médecins Charles Nodier Jules Janin Paul de Musset and so on. The majority of the stories and text is by P.-J. Stahl who wrote the Preface to the first volume. In contrast to all of the other plates the final plate in volume two depicts human figures - the authors themselves - as animals in the Jardin-des-Plantes in Paris regarded by spectating animals while being sketched by Grandville himself.'Through Grandville's animals Hetzel and his colleagues the authors offered a witty and telling commentary on contemporary politics and personalities. Bouchot described the result as the best satire on French manners during the middle of the century . Returning to the 'têtes-de-bêtes' of 'Les métamorphoses du jour' Grandville provided 323 illustrations about two-thirds of which are full-page plates . '. Ray.'Il a été exécuté pour les SCÈNES DES ANIMAUX des reliures et cartonnages artistiques qui sont parmi les plus beaux dans ce genre.' Carteret.Ray 194; SR / BF 63 / 64 / 65; Carteret III 552 - 559; Rebeyrat 289 / 190. J. Hetzel et Paulin, Editeurs. hardcover

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GRANDVILLE, (Jean-Ignace-Everard Gerard). (Delord, Taxile).Biblio.com

Un Autre Monde: Transformations visions incarnations ascensions locomotions explorations peregrinations . &c.

184447440Paris.: H. Fournier Libraire-Editeur. 1844. Original publisher's midnight blue percaline with elaborate polychromatic decoration front board with large central pictorial vignette reproducing the frontispiece with additional colour in red white green and blue signed Liebherre beneath an additional title vignette heightened in blue gilt pictorial vignette to rear board titles and elaborate gilt decoration heightened with colour to spine additional decoration in blind yellow glazed endpapers a.e.g. Large 8vo. 266 x 200 mm. Half-title in red with pseudo-privilège verso also in red leaf with frontispiece verso printed title in red and printed text illustrated with 36 hors-texte wood-engraved plates all with additional colouring by hand and 146 wood-engravings in the text final two leaves with 'Table' 'Explication' and 'Errata' verso. An excellent copy of Grandville's finest book and magnum opus an extraordinary imaginative tour de force in the original publisher's polychromatic binding.'Un nouveau monde est né; que Grandville soit loué.' Max Ernst.Grandville's most remarkable book an expansive flight of inspirational fantasy and a remarkable precursor. It is clear that the influence of this work extends onward in the nineteenth and well into the twentieth centuries and beyond. A remarkable work of sui generis imaginative verve Grandville produced the illustration which was then 'illustrated' with a commissioned text. The tale of three demi-gods 'Dr. Puff' 'Dr. Krackq' and 'Dr. Hahblle' their created worlds and travels. The work a descendant of the works of Swift and Goya inspired in passing Lewis Carroll 'La Battaille des Cartes' Max Ernst the Surrealists in general as well as later caricaturists such as Steadman and Scarfe.'In this remarkable book of the boldest possible originality Grandville dared to reveal his dream to the public.' Ray.The full title - which gives a good indication of the enormously broad scope of the work - reads as follows: 'Un Autre Monde: Transformations visions incarnations ascensions locomotions explorations pérégrinations excursions stations cosmogonies fantasmagories rêveries folâtreries facéties lubies métamorphoses zoomorphoses lithomorphoses métempsycoses apothéoses et autre choses.'Ray 196; SR / BF 76 / 77; Carteret III 285; Rebeyrat 287. H. Fournier, Libraire-Editeur. unknown

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GRANDVILLE, (Jean-Ignace-Everard Gerard). (Delord, Taxile).Biblio.com

Un Autre Monde: Transformations visions incarnations ascensions locomotions explorations peregrinations . &c.

184447349Paris.: H. Fournier Libraire-Editeur. 1844. Original publisher's green morocco-backed green percaline the front board with large central pictorial vignette reproducing the frontispiece beneath the pictorial title vignette rear board with gilt vignette from 'Petites Misères de la Vie Humaine' banded green morocco spine with elaborate gilt tooling and titles in five compartments marbled endpapers green silk placemarker t.e.g. Large 8vo. 272 x 212 mm. Half-title in red with pseudo-privilège verso also in red leaf with frontispiece verso printed title in red and printed text illustrated with 36 hors-texte wood-engraved plates all with additional colouring by hand and 146 wood-engravings in the text final two leaves with 'Table' 'Explication' and 'Errata' verso. PROVENANCE: With the contemporary printed bookplate in red and black of 'Louis. Charles. Adolphe. Chicora' 1806 - 1883 with the text 'Conseiller au conseil des mines' to front pastedown. Grandville's finest book and magnum opus an extraordinary imaginative tour de force in a highly unusual variant of the publisher's binding.'Un nouveau monde est né; que Grandville soit loué.' Max Ernst.Grandville's most remarkable book an expansive flight of inspirational fantasy and a remarkable precursor. It is clear that the influence of this work extends onward in the nineteenth and well into the twentieth centuries and beyond. A remarkable work of sui generis imaginative verve Grandville produced the illustration which was then 'illustrated' with a commissioned text. The tale of three demi-gods 'Dr. Puff' 'Dr. Krackq' and 'Dr. Hahblle' their created worlds and travels. The work a descendant of the works of Swift and Goya inspired in passing Lewis Carroll 'La Battaille des Cartes' Max Ernst the Surrealists in general as well as later caricaturists such as Steadman and Scarfe.The binding for the present copy not cited by Carteret is likely unique. As for the very few other known copies in variant bindings the front board reproduces the frontispiece showing 'la Charge et la Fantaisie passant de l'ancien monde à l'autre' signed by Liebherre beneath another tool with the title on a cloth or scarf held by a female figure in water flanked by a mermaid on a cushion and a swimming woman partially eclipsing a sun. The rear board most usually blank or displaying the same stamp here features another taken from the 'Petites Misères de la Vie Humaine'.'In this remarkable book of the boldest possible originality Grandville dared to reveal his dream to the public.' Ray.The full title - which gives a good indication of the enormously broad scope of the work - reads as follows: 'Un Autre Monde: Transformations visions incarnations ascensions locomotions explorations pérégrinations excursions stations cosmogonies fantasmagories rêveries folâtreries facéties lubies métamorphoses zoomorphoses lithomorphoses métempsycoses apothéoses et autre choses.'Ray 196; SR / BF 76 / 77; Carteret III 285; Rebeyrat 287. H. Fournier, Libraire-Editeur. unknown

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