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1851168970<p>1851. GRANDVILLE J.J. Les Fleurs Animées. Introduction by Alphonse Karr. Text by Taxile Delord. 2 volumes. 198; 176 pp. Illustrated with 2 hand-coloured lithographic frontispieces plus 50 hand-coloured lithographs. 12mo. 165 x 110 mm bound in publisher's hand-coloured illustrated printed boards in a new half morocco folding box. Bruxelles: C.W. Froment 1851. A reduced format Belgian edition of this classic. 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. Renonciat Grandville p. 287. Carteret III 286. Ray 198. Plesch 241. Sello Grandville: Das Gesamte Werk II 1500-1508.</p> hardcover
05519Paris: Gabriel De Gonet Éditeur 1847. Grandville's Favorite Work<br /> "Poetic and Gracious Originality Dexterity of Mind and Observation"<br /> <br /> GRANDVILLE J.J. illustrator. DELORD Taxile. Les Fleurs Animées. Introductions Par Alph. Karr Texte Par Taxile Delord Première Partie & Deuxième Partie. Paris: Gabriel De Gonet Éditeur no date but 1847. <br /> <br /> First edition second issue with discontinued pagination in vol. II and with the frontispieces signed<br /> "E. de Soye à Paris". <br /> <br /> Two large octavo volumes bound in one 10 x 6 3/4 inches; 254 x 172 mm. <br /> <br /> ii blank iii-v 6-260 2 table des matières; iv i-iv 1-102105-166 2 table des matières verso blank i-iv 169-234 2 table des matières verso blank pp. Added hand-colored wood-engraved title in each volume fifty hand-colored wood-engraved plates by Geoffroy after Grandville and two unsigned engraved botanical plates. All plates with original tissue-guards. The final sections are "Botanique des dames" which includes two botanical plates illustrating the physiology of plants "Horticulture des dames" and "Culture des fleurs." <br /> <br /> Publishers full dark brown morocco over beveled boards covers elaborately stamped in gilt. Spine with five shallow raised bands elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt board edges pale gray endpapers all edges gilt. Some light foxing to text pages only. An excellent example of Grandville's favorite work.<br /> <br /> "After Un autre monde the fifty-two colored engravings of Les fleurs animées are the chief example of Grandville's effort to penetrate to the meaning of objects like an 'intellectual miner' preface to Les étoiles p. xi even though only fifteen of the designs are entirely from his hand Bouchot p. 58. 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. Most of the plates show an elegant lady in a garden her dress covered with an extraordinary pattern of flowers. She is sometimes accompanied by respectful creatures animals and insects even fish and reptiles. As the series nears its end there are more elaborate scenes of flower-ladies in groups. A little world is created governed by its own laws which was full of significance to Grandville and hence becomes so to the reader as well. His first biographer wrote in the preface to Les étoiles pp. xiii-ix: '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 him divine affinities hitherto unperceived by anyone and discover new worlds'" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book. <br /> <br /> Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 198. Vicaire III cols. 133-134. Paris: Gabriel De Gonet, Éditeur, 1847 unknown
18381675741838. GRANDVILLE J.J. Voyages de Gulliver dans des Contrées Lointaines par Swift. Two volumes. 4 LXIX i.e. LIX 1 279; 4 319 pp. With a frontispiece of the gigantic Gulliver above an arch 6 section-titles and numerous wood-engraved vignettes by Grandville throughout. 8vo 210 x 125 mm. uniformly bound in contemporary red calf with gilt spine marbled endpapers t.e.g. Paris: H. Fournier Ainé Furne et Cie 1838. First edition with Grandville's illustrations containing 450 original wood-engraved vignettes which comprise some of his best work. "Swift's text with its pattern of logical development from impossible premises fitted Grandville's mind better than any other to which he applied himself. Each of Gulliver's four voyages had its own kind of appeal for the artist whose compositions remain at a high level throughout" Ray pp. 271-2. Indeed Beraldi claimed that the Voyages de Gulliver became the definitive visual rendering of Swift for French readers and remains one of Grandville's best works. There is scattered foxing throughout as seems to be the case with most copies. Still a more than acceptable copy and which also contains the half-titles which are lacking in the Ray copy. Ray Art of the French Illustrated Book 192. Beraldi VII 206. Brunet V 603. Vicaire VII 717. Carteret III 578. unknown
184485777Paris: Henri Fournier 1844. Fine. Henri Fournier Paris 1844 19.80 x 27.40 cm relié First edition of this work considered Grandville's masterpiece and first printing of the illustrations. Work illustrated with a frontispiece 36 superb hand-colored plates hors-texte as well as 146 black wood engravings in-text. Printed on strong laid paper the plates on tinted paper. Bound in half red morocco with corners signed at the top of the endpaper L. David. Slightly later binding ca 1860-1870. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Traces of rubbing. Scattered foxing. 2 leaves 174 and 175 awkwardly cut shorter. Handsome copy of this beautiful book precursor to surrealism. This delirious and prodigious production by Grandville and Delord whose name is printed at the bottom of page 292 judged by his contemporaries as already mad was rediscovered by the surrealists. « Published in 1844 by Fournier editions Un autre monde is Grandville's masterpiece. The book has the subtitle Transformations visions incarnations ascensions locomotions explorations pérégrinations excursions stations cosmogonies fantasmagories rêveries folâtreries facéties lubies métamorphoses zoomorphoses lithomorphoses métempsycoses apothéoses et autres choses. With its transformations inventions and fantasmagorias the work aims to reflect an era in full mutation. Un autre monde tells and illustrates the extraordinary voyages of three neo-gods Puff Krackq and Hahblle. . It is indeed a philosophical journey that Grandville proposes to us . The reader led to a strange planet imagined by the artist is invited like Gulliver in the land of Laputa to a parodic journey through his philosophical scientific economic and religious ideals his enthusiasms inventions and preoccupations: romanticism mechanization socialism money the serial novel advertising anglomania philanthropy phrenology etc. » Annie Renonciat La Vie et l'uvre de Grandville Paris ACR-Vilo 1985. Grandville's most sought-after work. Henri Fournier hardcover
18422091202133206302J. Hetzel 1842. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 books in total J. Hetzel paperback
18364094Paris: Aubert et cie Place de La Bourse 29 1836. Hardcover. Very Good. 1836. Oblong 4to. 71 leaves of plates. 30 x 23 cm. Original illustrated green paper boards with gilt lettering. Re-impression of the first edition published in 1829. One of two variant copies noted by Vicaire each with a slightly different title and title page information. I could only find four auction records of this 1836 edition. Three of these had the extended title. This copy with the shorter title last appeared at auction in 2012. This copy not coloured and without the suppressed plates. Although later editions of this work are quite common this re-impression appears to be quite rare especially in the original boards and in such excellent condition. Head of spine and board tips with light wear the plates are a little age toned and foxed around the edges. G. Vicaire 5 780; L. Carteret3 284; Ray 197. Aubert et cie, Place de La Bourse, 29 hardcover
18561713451856. GRANDVILLE J.J. Voyages de Gulliver dans des Contrées Lointaines par Swift. Four parts in one. 448 pp. with a frontispiece of the gigantic Gulliver above an arch 6 section-titles and numerous wood-engraved vignettes by Grandville throughout. 8vo 212 x 125 mm. in the publisher's polychrome binding. Paris: Garnier Freres 1856 $ 2500.00 A later issue but preserved in the publisher's polychrome binding and with the interior bright and free from foxing. With 450 original wood-engraved vignettes by Grandville which comprise some of his best work. "Swift's text with its pattern of logical development from impossible premises fitted Grandville's mind better than any other to which he applied himself" Ray pp. 271-2. Indeed Beraldi claimed that the Voyages de Gulliver became the definitive visual rendering of Swift for French readers and remains one of Grandville's best works. Ray Art of the French Illustrated Book 192. Beraldi VII 206. Brunet V 603. Vicaire VII 717. Carteret III 578. unknown
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. 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
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
1847002528R Martin 1847 This a two volume set beautifully bound in full black morocco with elaborate gilt decorations aeg Vol 1 280 pp Vol 2 dated 1849 281-382 erratum plus extra illustration; Ladies Botany i-viii Modern Botany for Ladies and modern Horticulture 1-152 extra illustrated. Spines laid down with repairs to extremities tips with modest wear quite occasional marks corner of first end paper in Vol 2 scissored name on title page in small fine hand largely unread. R Martin hardcover
18481713441848. GRANDVILLE J.J. L'Ingénieux chevalier Don Quichotte de la Manche. Traduction nouvelle illustrée par J.J. Granville. By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Two volumes in one. viii 552 pp. with steel engraved frontispiece 6 steel engraved plates and 24 woodcut engravings all executed after designs by Grandville. 8vo 2350 x 150 mm. bound in original publisher's polychrome binding a.e.g. Tours: A. Mame et Cie. 1858. A pristine copy of this edition of Grandville's illustrated edition of Cervantes reissued in the same format as his other books with the original publisher's polychrome binding in fine state. The 32 illustrations by Grandville are a continual source of delight for which many of Quixote's classic mis-adventures are immortalized with characteristic humour and charm. Without any of the foxing found in most copies. Overall an exceptional copy the gold and polychrome on the binding very bright and fresh. unknown
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
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 hard-grain 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
184978256Paris: G. de Gonet 1849. Fine. G. de Gonet Paris s. d. 1849 19.50 x 28.50 cm relié G. de Gonet Paris 1849 19 x 285 cm publishers binding First edition of this posthumous work illustrated with 15 insert steel-engraved plates by Charles Geoffroy and enhanced in color including two frontispieces and a portrait of Grandville. Publisher's binding with full historiated cream boards first board illustrated browned endpapers as is usual for this period. Rare interior foxing. Superb publication arguably one of Grandville's most poetic in which as for his Fleurs animées the artist represents celestial bodies with young women. G. de Gonet hardcover
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. An exceptionally clean copy. Renonciat 178-183. hardcover
1847131138Gabriel de Gonet Editeur 1847. Leather. Very Good. 1847 Gabriel de Gonet Editeur. Paris two volume quarter leather over patterned boards. Decorated end papers front paste downs show book plates. Numerous color illustrations throughout. Foxing present. Text is in French. Quarter sized scar to spine of volume 2. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Gabriel de Gonet, Editeur hardcover
16-5626Paris: 1839-1840. A suite of 5 handcolored lithographs framed. 35 x 50cm sheet sizes. The very rare 4th and 5th prints look similar to the 2nd and 3rd but there are changes to some of the figures and the text.Three of the prints appeared in La Caricature Provisoire deuxième série:1. 15 décembre 1839 no. 59;2. 29 décembre 1839 no. 61;3. 16 février 1840 no. 7;.References: Beraldi VII p. 249 no. 19Vicaire II pp. 97-98De Vinck 1337513376 13377 13378.Provenance: Bernard Mamy.One of the mostcelebrated works by Grandville is "The long March to the Académie Française's Bell Tower." It was created by Grandville in in 1839-1840. This work is a political caricature which represents a groupof romantic writers colliding with the closed doors of the French Academy.This image symbolizes the ostracism that the Romantics suffered from the Academywho repeatedly rejected their applications. According to Gérard Pouchain specialist incaricatures of Victor Hugo the complete suite of 5 lithographs is very rare. Descriptions of the first 3 prints:1 The first print shows on the left Alfred de Vigny beckoning at the door of the Académie française behind him is Eugène Sue riding on a litter of books carried on the shoulders of several men and a woman who are characters from his novel "Mysteries of Paris" as is a woman identified as Ste. Fleur-de-Marie standing behind him holding a large quill pen at center is Alexandre Dumas shying away from the ghosts of "Caligula" and "Laird de Dumbicky" and on the right Honore de Balzac is riding the hair-braids of two women among a small group of women and a couple of men some are holding a platter of heart-shaped candles over his head giving the appearance of a crown on the ground below him are hearts with keys in them. Of the four only Alfred de Vigny was eventually elected to the Académie française.2 .La pl. du n° De Vinck 13376 avec des modifications : le groupe de dr. des n.os 9 aÌ€ 13 devenus ici 3 et 4 est le meÌ‚me mais le groupe de g. est diffeÌrent : Victor Hugo est remplaceÌ par EugeÌ€ne Sue entoureÌ des principaux personnages de ses romans qui ont eux meÌ‚mes prit la place de NapoleÌon Crevel de Charlemagne et des "enfants de choeur" de Victor Hugo. Quant aÌ€ Vigny il est beaucoup plus preÌ€s de la porte de l'AcadeÌmie aÌ€ laquelle il frappe avec ses oeuvres compleÌ€tes. 3.Les concurrents sont : 1. Jules Janin dont le char est poussé par MM. Théodore Burette Ricourt Bertrand auteur de "Laurent de Médicis et autres critiques plus ou moins blonds . 2. F. de Lamennais "Perdu dans les brouillards et jetant son froc aux orties". 3. Louis Desnoyers Derville "se hatant sic lentement" il est assis. 4. Alphonse Karr. 5. Frédéric Soulié "Pliant sous le faix de ses ouvrages et de ses moustaches". 6. Charles de Bernard "Se cachant sous le masque de Balzac" qui l'a beaucoup aidé et qui a eu sur lui une grande influence. 7. Léon Gozlan. 8. Emmanuel Gonzalez et 9. Louis Viardot. Singulier combat entre ces deux Hidalgos qui se disputent l'Espagne sous forme de carte géographique. Le directeur de "La Caricature provisoire E. Gonzales menace à la fois de ses grelots et de son poignard dramatique le Directeur du théâtre des Italiens L. Viardot qui se défend avec sa traduction de Don Quichotte et autres ouvrages très Ibériques et pas mal péninsulaires . Image et légende comportent d'autres allusions aux oeuvres de tous ces écrivainsRéférence: De Vinck 13378A set includes the first three hand-colored lithographs satirizing groups of French literary figures en route to the AcadeÌmie Française. The prints feature caricatures of groups of authors including Alexandre Dumas Victor Hugo Jules Janin and EugeÌ€ne Sue and one female author Marguerite-Louise-Virginie Ancelot depicted in humorous poses outside the doors of the academy and inside the Chambre des Perruques AcadeÌmiques. The prints were issued in La Caricature Provisoire nos. 59 61 and new series no. 7 between December 1839 and February 1840.Un des travaux les plus connus de Grandville est "La Grande Course au Clocher Académique" réalisée en 1839. Cette oeuvre est une caricature politique qui représente un groupe d'écrivains romantiques se heurtant aux portes closes de l'Académie française. Cette image symbolise l'ostracisme que subissaient les romantiques de la part de l'Académie qui rejetait à plusieurs reprises leurs candidatures. Paris: 1839-1840 unknown
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
18471679151847. GRANDVILLE J.J. Les Fleurs Animées. Introduction by Alphonse Karr. Text by Taxile Delord. Two volumes. 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 1847. 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
184979131Paris: G. de Gonet 1849. Fine. One of the rarest Romantic illustrated books in the publishers pictorial binding G. de Gonet Paris s. d. 1849 18 x 27 cm relié First edition of this posthumous work illustrated with 15 hand-coloured steel engravings by Charles Geoffroy including two frontispieces and a portrait of Grandville. Publishers full pictorial cloth binding the spine slightly faded signed ""Haaraus"" in the plate original yellow endpapers and pastedowns a little soiled at the margins. Discreet restoration to the head of the upper joint. Foxing to the half-title the first endpaper and some leaves also affecting the tissue guards and more lightly the plates. A splendid publication undoubtedly one of Granvilles most poetic works in whichas in his Fleurs animéesthe artist personifies the celestial bodies as young women. G. de Gonet hardcover
18471713431847. GRANDVILLE J.J. Les Fleurs Animées. Introduction by Alphonse Karr. Text by Taxile Delord. Two volumes. I: 260 pp. illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and 28 plates all coloured by hand. II: 4 102 iv 105-236 i.e. 136 pp. illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and 22 plates coloured by hand plus 2 botanical plates. 4to 264 x 178 mm. bound in original publisher's illustrated wrappers in chemise and board slipcases. Paris: Gabriel de Gonet 1847. Exceptionally fine copy in the original publisher's wrappers of this true classic of floral surrealism. 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. This copy is preserved in spectacular condition as fresh as the day it was published. Renonciat Grandville p. 287. Carteret III 286. Ray 198. Plesch 241. Sello Grandville: Das Gesamte Werk II 1500-1508. unknown
18421672321842. GRANDVILLE J.J. Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux. 2 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 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 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 marvelous 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 professional repair to rear hinge of Volume 2 overall clean near fine. Ray 194. Carteret III 552-59. Rebeyrat Catalogue bibliographique et bibliophilique in: J.J. Grandville 1985 pp. 289-90. hardcover
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
007957Paris; Brussels: Chez Bulla; Chez Borella. 1st Edition . No Binding. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. GRANDVILLE J. J. LANGLUME Pierre 1790-. THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF GRANDVILLE'S METAMORPHOSES 1828-1829. First edition of this famous series of plates oblong quartos sixty two of seventy three hand coloured lithographed plates with French titles captions and imprints lacking Plates 8 16 39 43 46 47 51 66 69 71 and 72. Without title and Achille Comte's single leaf preface often lacking. Completely uncut and loosely laid into contemporary blue paper wrappers very minor marginal browning damp staining or spotting to a few places not affecting images small margin repaired tear pl54. With vividly coloured plates 26 with titles in French the remainder in French & English. Housed in a blue cloth clamshell case. 367274 mm. Vicaire V cols. 775-780. Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 132. This famous album which established Grandville's early style of bitter burlesque has become rare. Indeed it is known to many of his admirers only through the greatly inferior volume of seventy wood engraved reproductions published by Havard in 1854. Lust gluttony anger and the other deadly sins are stigmatised now with the blow of a hammer now with the thrust of a stiletto; while the foibles and humours 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. Perhaps his most terrifying plate is 'Menagerie' no 67 which shows four prison cells. In the first are complacent commercial offenders enjoying all the comforts of home; in the second violent criminals sly or stupid; in the third murderers one with the countenance of the utmost ferocity; in the forth political prisoners quiet and despondent. Grandville turned to direct political satire in his final plates but the publication of his onslaughts on church 'Famille des scarabees' No 72 and state 'Une bete Feroce' No 73 was not permitted in France Ray. This set contains one Une bete feroce No 73 of the two particularly rare suppressed plates containing the Brussels imprint of Borella. Lith. de Langlume. Overall a superb collection from this extremely scarce edition. <br/> <br/> Chez Bulla; Chez Borella unknown
1854167495<p>1854. GRANDVILLE J.J. Les Métamorphoses du Jour. 4 xxviii 283 pp. with 70 hand-coloured wood engravings after designs by Grandville. Large 8vo 262 x 163 mm. bound in publisher's illustrated polychrome boards. Paris: Havard 1854. First edition in book form comprised of 67 designs from the excessively rare 1829 suite 2 lithographs from La Silhouette and 1 woodcut from the Musée Philipon. The Métamorphoses du Jour was the work which established Grandville's reputation as a brilliant satirical critic of social manners institutions and prejudices. "Throughout the series Grandville's choice of beastheads is inspired and the force of his conceptions and the wit of his captions rarely falter. Occasionally he produces a design of universal application that calls Goya to mind" Ray. Charles Blanc described the Métamorphoses du Jour as "the most original and most remarkable series in Grandville's oeuvre." The text for this edition was contributed by Alberic Second Louis Lurine Clément Caraguel Taxile Delord and others. In fine condition with the binding exceptionally fresh but with some insignificant spotting or foxing throughout not affecting the plates. An exceptionally clean copy in the rare polychrome binding. Carteret III 282. Brivois 179. Ray French 132 1829 suite. Rebeyrat p. 288.</p> hardcover
