Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Grandville. Les Fleurs Animées. Texte par Alph(onse) Karr, Taxile Delord (et Le Cte Foelix). Première-seconde partie. 2 vols.

With 2 hand-coloured frontispieces, 50 hand-coloured plates, and 2 plain plates (botanique), and many wood-engr. illus. in the text. 260 pp; title, 102, IV, 236 pp. Small 4to. Dark blue publisher’s full cloth with gilt and polychrome cover illustration after Grandville. Edges gilt. – Paris, Gabriel de Gonet, n. d. (1847).

Second imprint of the year of the first edition with discontinued pagination in vol. II and with the frontispieces signed “E. de Soye, à Paris”. “Dans ces deux éditions les planches sont à claire-voie, dans les subséquentes […] elles sont entourées soit d’un fillet noir, soit d’un fillet or et bien inférierues comme coloris” (Brivois). One of the latest publications of Grandville, at the same time one of his most predilected ones. Fine copy in an original publisher’s binding with cover illustration after Grandville and with all tissue-guards protecting the plates. – Brivois 147ff.; Vicaire III, 133; Sander 215. – Minor foxing in parts, a very good copy in all. – Best.-Nr. 7208