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Paris: Garnier Frères, 1867. Original red leather bindings, with decorations to front and gilt stamped title to spines. A beautiful hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece to each volume, and 50 hand-coloured lithographed plates and 2 uncoloured lithographic plates; also many b/w text illustrations. All edges gilt. Volume 1: 339 pages; Volume 2: 324 pages. Text in French. Boards are a little rubbed at the corners, and there are some faded ink blobs to both volumes. Internally, there is sporadic spotting, but none affecting the beauty of the plates. Overall, in a very good clean condition. 275 x 185 mm (10¾ x 7¼ inches). See Sander 215, note Vicaire III, 135. Cf. Brivois 149f. u. Carteret III, 286. Reliures originales en cuir rouge, avec décorations au recto et titre estampé doré aux dos. Un beau frontispice lithographié colorié à la main à chaque volume, et 50 planches lithographiées coloriées à la main et 2 planches lithographiques incolores; aussi de nombreuses illustrations de texte… Read More

Paris: Gabriel De Gonet, Éditeur, 1847. Grandville's Favorite Work "Poetic and Gracious Originality, Dexterity of Mind and Observation" [GRANDVILLE, J.J., illustrator]. DELORD, Taxile. Les Fleurs Animées. Introductions Par Alph. Karr, Texte Par Taxile Delord Première Partie [&] Deuxième Partie. Paris: Gabriel De Gonet, Éditeur, [no date but 1847]. First edition, second issue, with discontinued pagination in vol. II and with the frontispieces signed "E. de Soye, à Paris". Two large octavo volumes bound in one (10 x 6 3/4 inches; 254 x 172 mm.). [ii], blank], [iii-v], 6-260, [2, table des matières]; [iv], [i]-iv, [1]-102,[105]-166, [2 table des matières, verso blank], [i]-iv, [169]-234, [2, table des matières, verso blank] pp. Added hand-colored wood-engraved title in each volume, fifty hand-colored wood-engraved plates by Geoffroy after Grandville, and two unsigned engraved botanical plates. All plates with original tissue-guards. The final sections are "Botanique des dames," which… Read More

New York: Martin, 1847. First. hardcover. very good(+). Grandville. 2 volumes. Extra illustrated title pages and 52 additional steel engraved plates, 50 with delicate hand coloring and featuring Grandville's delightful anthropomorphized plants, each protected with tissue. (4), iv, 3-278; 281-385, (4), 152, 8pp. Short 4to, handsomely bound in contemporary full red morocco with a floral gilt border on covers (spines a bit darkened with leather crackled; well-rubbed at joints and corners, but sound and attractive). New York: R. Martin, 1847. A very good copy, internally fine.<br/><br/> 3 titles bound in 2 volumes: The Flowers Personified (385pp); Modern Botany for Ladies and Ladies' Horticulture (152pp); Supplement to the "Ladies' Botany" (8pp).<br/><br/>

Paris: Gabriel de Gonet, 1847.. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE WITH THE CORRECT PAGINATION. 2 vols. Large 8vo. (27 x 18.5 cm). pp. 262; 263-364+iv+132. Near contemporary straight-grained blue morocco over marbled boards by Emile Carayon (his signature to front endpapers), original pink-decorated paper wrappers bound in, smooth spines lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. 52 hand-coloured plates comprising 50 anthropomorphic steel-engraved plates and two wood-engraved frontispieces, plus an additional 2 black and white botanical plates in vol. 2. Octagonal navy bookplate with a wild boar to marbled flyleaf of vol.1. A fine copy. A lovely set of one of Grandville's best works, a true classic of floral surrealism, in a handsome French binding by Carayon. "The Fleurs Anim�es 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… Read More

1847. 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… Read More

New York: R. Martin, 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 3 vols. in 1. 1st American edition (in English). Exceptionally detailed, bespoke, contemporary full morocco, signed on the cover by Jill Smith, intricately inlaid, white silk moiré, framed endpapers, bearing a gilt inscription from a husband to his wife on their wedding day (Jan. 1, 1859, probably dating the binding as 1858), all edges gilt, light wear to covers, neatly rebacked, small chips to the corners of the vignette title page, a trace of foxing but printed on paper vastly superior to what was general on American books in 1847, and still near fine. 50 unprecedented engraved plates of anthropomorphic plants (simultaneously poetical and satirical) dressed in flower and leaf enhanced French couture of the day, when seamstresses were independent, hired individually and came to the customer. The 50 plates are professionally and, in this copy, artistically, hand colored (the publisher's choice of the painters he employed varies from… Read More