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183840265Paris, Fournier aîné, 1838. 2 volumes in-8 (229 x 150 mm), frontispice, (4)-XXVIII-292 pp., 72 planches ; (4)-312 pp., 48 planches, veau bleu glacé, dos ornés à nerfs, tranches dorées (Capé).
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
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
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
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
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
184244128Paris J. Hetzel et Paulin 1842 Grand in-8, broch, couverture muette. Chemise, tui (Devauchelle).Rarissime exemplaire sur papier de Chine du second tome de ce livre, dont on ne connat que 2 autres exemplaires galement imprims sans les 105 gravures hors texte. Les Scnes de la vie prive et publique des animaux ne devaient comporter l'origine qu'un seul volume, ainsi que l'atteste le prospectus de l'diteur et co-auteur Hetzel (... Le prix de la livraison est de 30 centimes (chine, 60 centimes), le volume renfermera 50 livraisons...). Pour finir, l'ouvrage paratra en deux volumes, dont le premier avec un tirage sur papier de Chine limit de trs rares exemplaires. L'diteur a certainement envisag un tirage sur papier de Chine pour le second volume, mais aprs un essai limit 3 exemplaires avec seulement les illustrations in-texte, il a finalement abandonn l'ide de mettre en vente un tirage sur ce papier. Ce tome second runit des textes de L'Hritier, Paul de Musset, Louis Viardot et P.-J. Stahl (Hetzel), illustrs par Grandville des 55 in-texte. Notre exemplaire toutes marges, absolument non rogn, sous sa couverture muette en papier vert clair, est une ppite bibliophilique runir avec un exemplaire du premier volume sur papier de Chine.
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
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
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
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
184979131G. de Gonet | Paris s. d. [1849] | 18 x 27 cm | relié
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
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
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
18420024641842 Paris, J. Hetzel et Paulin, 1842. Deux volumes grand in-8 (192 X 268 mm) chagrin noir de l'éditeur orné de fers animaliers dorés d'après les dessins de Grandville, dos lisse, titre doré, tranches dorées. Tome I : (4) ff., frontispice, 386 pages, 95 planches hors-texte, (3) ff. de table - Tome II : (2) ff., frontispice, 390 pages, 104 planches hors-texte, (3) ff. de table.
24586Paris Aubert et Cie sans date In-4 oblong, premier plat illustr (cartonnage de l'diteur).Cette suite comporte un titre grav rpt sur la couverture du cartonnage, et 24 planches hors texte numrotes. Rare.
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
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
