April 12, 2024
1851 GRANDVILLE 2 volumes 51 PLATES Les fleurs animèes
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1851 GRANDVILLE 2 volumes 51 PLATES Les fleurs animèes Outstanding CLEAN example in the original col. printed boards Grandville, Jean Jacques Les fleurs animèes. Brüssel, C. W. Froment, 1851. 8vo. 7 x 4.5 inches 2 volumes. Each volume with a hand coloured frontispiece and a handcoloured title. 47 superb hand coloured plates. 198; 176 pages. Complete. Fine original hand coloured decorative boards. A beautifully, unusually clean example of the Brüssels edition. Gordon Ray, Art of the French Illustrated Book, 198: "A little world is created, governed by its own l aws. 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 grac ious originality, of dexterity of mind and observation, of that prodigious perspicacity which made divine affinities hitherto unperceived by anyone and discover new worlds.'. Illustrated by Grandville. Minor rubbing to boards. Bookseller: Antiquariat Daniel Good, Kornmarktgasse 7, 6004 Luzern, Switzerland (dg)
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