Grandville J. J.ABAA
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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
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
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
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
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
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
18841679151884. GRANDVILLE J.J. Les Fleurs Animées. Introduction by Alphonse Karr. Text by Taxile Delord. 3-260; 2 102 4 iv 2 106-166 2 iv 169-234 2 pp. Illustrated with 2 engraved title-pages 50 hand-coloured engraved plates by Grandville plus 2 engraved botanical plates. 4to. 264 x 178 mm bound in original publisher's cartonnage bindings richly gilt a.e.g. Paris: Gabriel de Gonet n.d. 1847. $4750.00 A Fine Copy in the original publisher's cartonnage bindings a true classic of floral surrealism. This copy with superb hand colouring to the engravings belongs to a hitherto undescribed edition with a separate pagination for the two parts. Of all his works Les Fleurs Animées was Grandville's own personal favorite. In the fifty hand-coloured plates Grandville portrays a flower or plant metamorphosized into a lady clad in the petals or leaves particular to that flower or plant. Further his flower turned human exhibits the human personality traits which Grandville perceives as characteristic of the species he is illustrating. Les Fleurs Animées is "a little world created and governed by its own laws which was full of significance for Grandville " Ray. Occasional inoffensive foxing not detracting from the finely coloured plates. Two tipped on gilt-stamped pieces from the spine missing. Now rare in the publisher's binding. Renonciat Grandville p. 287. Carteret III 286. Ray 198. Plesch 241. Sello Grandville: Das Gesamte Werk II 1500-1508. unknown books
18421672321842. GRANDVILLE J.J. Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux. Two volumes. 8 386 6; 4 390 6 pp. With 201 engraved plates and 120 vignettes illustrating the text. Large 8vo. 261 x 180 mm uniformly bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt vingettes of Grandville designs on the covers and spine. Paris: Hetzel et Paulin: 1842. First Edition of a Grandville masterpiece bound in the publisher's gilt-stamped cloth. A fantastic example of anthropomorphic illustration and an important precursor of surrealism. These illustrations represent some of Grandville's most memorable creations. Many of the plates are of single figures but there are also satirical scenes of everyday life monsters animals looking at politicians caged at the zoo etc. The texts contained herein were written by such notable authors as Balzac Charles Nodier George Sand Louis Viardot and even J. Hetzel the publisher under the pseudonym of P.-J. Stahl. Hetzel was the motivating force behind this work which he undertook in order to "give words to Grandville's marvellous 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." Gordon N. Ray writes: "Through Grandville's animals Hetzel and his colleagues offered a witty and telling commentary on contemporary politics and personalities." Some minor rubbing rear hinge of volume 2 with professional repair overall clean near fine. Ray 194. Carteret III 552-59. Rebeyrat Catalogue bibliographique et bibliophilique in: J.-J. Grandville 1985 pp. 289-90. 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
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
18421675771842. GRANDVILLE J.J. Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux. Two volumes. 8 386 6; 4 390 6 pp. With 201 engraved plates and 120 vignettes illustrating the text. Large 8vo. 261 x 180 mm uniformly bound in publisher's full decorated cloth binding with gilt vignettes of Grandville designs on the covers and spine. Paris: Hetzel et Paulin: 1842. First Edition of a Grandville masterpiece bound in the publisher's elaborate polychrome decorated binding. A fantastic example of anthropomorphic illustration and an important precursor of surrealism. These illustrations represent some of Grandville's most memorable creations. Many of the plates are of single figures but there are also satirical scenes of everyday life monsters animals looking at politicians caged at the zoo etc. The texts contained herein were written by such notable authors as Balzac Charles Nodier George Sand Louis Viardot and even J. Hetzel the publisher under the pseudonym of P.-J. Stahl. Hetzel was the motivating force behind this work which he undertook in order to "give words to Grandville's marvellous 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." Gordon N. Ray writes: "Through Grandville's animals Hetzel and his colleagues offered a witty and telling commentary on contemporary politics and personalities." A fine set rare in the publisher's decorated bindings and internally pristine. Ray 194. Carteret III 552-59. Rebeyrat Catalogue bibliographique et bibliophilique in: J.-J. Grandville 1985 pp. 289-90. hardcover books
