Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE - Taxile DELORDLivre Rare Book
Un Autre Monde. Transformations Visions Incarnations Ascensions Locomotions Explorations Peregrinations Excursions Stations Cosmogonies Fantasmagories Reveries Folatreries Faceties Lubies Metamorphoses Zoomorphoses Lithomorphoses Metempsycoses Apotheoses et Autres Choses.
1844HMF1752<p>First Edition <br />Royal 8vo frontis. iv 295 1 pp half-title and title-page printed in red 36 plates part-coloured by hand as issued over 140 black-and-white illustrations in the text occasional light foxing mainly in the prelims. 19th century half russia marbled boards marbled edges and endpapers recently re-backed boards a little rubbed but a sound copy.</p><p>Grandville's most important book; an extraordinary imaginative tour de force; an inspirational fantasy which undoubtedly had an influence well into the twentieth century. That influence can be seen in Tenniel's illustration to Alice; Max Ernst and the Surrealists as well as the likes of Ralph Steadman and Gerald Scarfe.</p><p>Ray 196 Carteret v3 285</p> Paris H. Fournier, Libraire-Editeur, Rue Saint-Benoit 7, 1844. hardcover
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