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Petites misères de la vie humaine

GRANDVILLE, JJ J JBiblio.com

Petites Misères de la Vie Humaine

06031Paris: Garnier Frères 1848. The Cipher of a New Relation Between Humans and Things" GRANDVILLE J.J. Petites Misères de la Vie Humaine. Texte par Old Nick. Nouvelle Édition. Paris: Garnier Frères 1848. Nouvelle èdition First published by Henri Fournier in 1843. Large octavo 10 5/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 269 x 175 mm. 2 2 portrait frontispiece 2 Vignette title printed in black red and brown iii iv blank 1-520 pp. Fifty-three fine engraved plates including the portrait frontispiece of Grandville. Numerous illustrations and cul-de-lampes throughout the text. Half-title and title-page with foxing sporadic light mainly marginal foxing to plates and text. Publisher's quarter green morocco over green pebble- cloth boards spine with four shallow raised bands elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments white watered silk-paper endleaves all edges gilt. Some old tape marks on endpapers from a long ago removed protective covering. A very nice copy of this the most complete edition with three additional plates that are not in the first edition of 1843. This edition is notoriously difficult to date as Garnier Frères did a number of "nouvelle" editions. On the front paste-down there is an old small tipped-on catalog description from a French dealer dating the book 1848 and on the printer's slug on the last page it reads "Paris - J. Clave imprimeur 7 rue Saint-Benoit. - 1448". Patently absurd but it is conceivable that the printer made an error and it should read 1848. "In the final decade of his life Grandville gave considerable attention to what Marx would soon call "the enigmatical character of the product of labor." Grandville's 1843 illustrations for Petites misères de la vie humaine are described by Giorgio Agamben in Stanzas: Word and Image in Western Culture University of Minnesota Press 1993: "In a leaky faucet that cannot be turned off in an umbrella that reverses itself in a boot that can be neither completely put on nor taken off and remains tenaciously stuck on the foot . . . the prophetic glance of Grandville discovers . . . the cipher of a new relation between humans and things. . . . The degeneration implicit in the transformation of the artisanal object into the mass-produced article is constantly manifest to modern man in the loss of his own self-possession with respect to things." Artforum. Carteret III p. 471: 'Charmant illustration une des plus spirituelles de Grandville'. Paris: Garnier Frères, 1848 unknown

David Brass Rare Books, Inc. · États-Unis650,00 $US≈ 549,97 €

GRANDVILLE (illus).Biblio.com

Les métamorphoses du jour.

1869168897Paris: Garnier Frères 1869. Second edition of Grandville's masterpiece of satirical illustration featuring his famous engravings of beast-headed people. It was improved from the first of 1854 by printing the plates on heavier paper and revising or augmenting the captions; the artist's signature was also added to many of them. The work originally appeared as a portfolio of hand-coloured lithographs printed by Langlumé in 1829; the book form edition in 1854 was the first to include an accompanying text and reproduce the illustrations as wood-engravings. The task of re-engraving the images on wood was entrusted to Auguste Desperet 1804-1865 a skilled artist "whose talent was highly regarded by Grandville himself who considered him to be his collaborator" tr. from Brivois. Grandville the pseudonym of Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard 1803-1847 was the most famous and talented French caricaturist of the period. Les métamorphoses du jour was his first major success and the work which established his reputation. The illustrations inaugurated his characteristic "bitter burlesque" style which exposes human vices and behaviours by giving men and women the heads of animals. The work was intended as a satirical commentary on the Parisian burgeois society of the 1820s. "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. Quarto. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 70 similar plates all hand-coloured and with tissue guards numerous wood-engraved vignettes in text. Original red quarter roan red pebble-grain cloth sides blocked in blind spine with raised bands compartments lettered and decorated in gilt cream textured endpapers edges gilt. Wear to extremities short cracks at joints ends but firm spine skilfully retouched with colour small repair at tail peripheral fading and couple small of damp-stains to cloth intermittent and mainly marginal foxing to contents otherwise generally clean the plates vibrant. A very good copy. Brivois p. 180; Vicaire V 787. Gordon Norton Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700 to 1914 vol. I 1982. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni500,00 £GB≈ 570,90 €

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