Grandville.Alphonse Karr.Taxile Delord.Livre Rare Book
Un autre monde - Transformations visions incarnations ascensions locomotions explorations pérégrinations excursions stations cosmogonies fantasmagories rêveries folatreries facéties lubies métamorphoses zoomorphoses lithomorphoses métempsychoses apothéoses et autres choses
184485752Paris: Henri Fournier 1844. Fine. Henri Fournier Paris 1844 19 x 27 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 and 146 black woodcuts in the text. Contemporary half-shagreen binding in red spine with raised bands outlined with gilt fillets and decorated with triple gilt compartments ornamented with gilt floral motifs joints cracked at head and foot some rubbing traces on spine marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns all edges gilt. Handsome copy virtually free from foxing of this beautiful book that was a 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 fantasmagories the work aims to reflect an era in full transformation. Un autre monde recounts and illustrates the extraordinary voyages of three neo-gods Puff Krackq and Hahblle. . It is indeed a philosophical voyage that Grandville offers 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 serialized novels 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
