Les fleurs animees. Par J.J. Grandville. Texte par Alph. Karr, Taxile Delord et le Cte. Foeulix. Nouvelle edition avec planches tres soigneusement retouches pour la gravure et le coloris par M. Maubert, peintre d'histoire naturelle attaché au Jardin des Plantes by Grandville, J.J. [illustrator]. Delord, Taxile - [n.d., 1867]
by Grandville, J.J. [illustrator]. Delord, Taxile
Les fleurs animees. Par J.J. Grandville. Texte par Alph. Karr, Taxile Delord et le Cte. Foeulix. Nouvelle edition avec planches tres soigneusement retouches pour la gravure et le coloris par M. Maubert, peintre d'histoire naturelle attaché au Jardin des Plantes
by Grandville, J.J. [illustrator]. Delord, Taxile
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Paris; Garnier Freres, [n.d., 1867] New edition. Contemporary red morocco over red cloth boards. Gilt spine, all edges gilt. . Two volumes, large octavo. Two hand-colored wood-engraved titles and fifty hand-colored wood-engraved plates, two uncolored plates. Decorative woodcut initials and tailpieces throughout. Binding extremities lightly rubbed, tear at head of spine of Vo. 2 neatly repaired. Some light foxing at beginning and end of each volume. A very good, clean set. Though the images in the book are of Grandville's time, his manner of proceeding is that of an artist of the modern movement, exploring the same subject through a sequence of slight but significant variations. Most of the plates show an elegant lady accompanied by respectful creatures, animals and insects, even fish and reptiles. As the series nears its end there are more elaborate scenes of flower-ladies in groups. A little world is created, governed by its own laws, which was full of significance to Grandville and hence becomes so to the reader as well. his first biographer wrote in the preface to Les étoiles (pp. viii-ix): '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 gracious originality, of dexterity of mind and observation, of that prodigious perspicacity which made him divine affinities hitherto unperceived by anyone and discover new worlds'" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 198.
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- Date Published [n.d., 1867]
- Pages 339, [5]; [4], 324, [2] pp.
- Size Two volumes, large octavo
- Size Two volumes, large octavo
The Knave of Hearts. With pictures by Maxfield Parrish.
by [Parrish, Maxfield]. Saunders, Louise
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A Treatise on Pocket Knives
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The Illuminated Calendar and Home Diary for 1845
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Smitty's Cocks. Eight Woodengravings...Drawn & Carved for the Use of Smith Glass, 1955 - 1974...Introduction by Carol J. Blinn.
by Baskin, Leonard, artist
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Picturesque views by Calvert.
by Frederick Calvert (Cork 1793-1852).
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London, Hodgson & Co, 1823.
Oblong 4°
(24 x 16,5 cm.). With 24 soft ground etched plates and title. Original publisher's half morocco with printed front cover. With original tissue guards.
Very rare plate album by Irish landscape painter Frederick Calvert, complete with 24 "picturesque views" and in the original binding. Calvert moved to England in 1815 and, besides painting, produced a number of print albums and model books, a.o. The young artist's instructor (London, Hodgson and Co., 1823) and Rural scenery (London, Hodgson and Co., ca. 1825). He designed plates for Picturesque views ... in Staffordshire and Shropshire (Birmingham, William Emans, 1830-1831), and for A new and compendious history, of the county of Warwick (Birmingham, William Emans, 1830). Perhaps his most famous work was for The Isle of Wight illustrated (1846).
The present work is the rarest of Calvert's published oeuvre, with just 4 copies recorded in WorldCat and none at auction. It formed the basis… Read More
The Knave of Hearts. With pictures by Maxfield Parrish.
by [Parrish, Maxfield]. Saunders, Louise
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A Treatise on Pocket Knives
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The Illuminated Calendar and Home Diary for 1845
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Smitty's Cocks. Eight Woodengravings...Drawn & Carved for the Use of Smith Glass, 1955 - 1974...Introduction by Carol J. Blinn.
by Baskin, Leonard, artist
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Golden Verses from the New Testament with the Illuminations and Miniatures from Celebrated Missals and Books of Hours of the XIV and XV Centuries.
by [ Chromolithography. Knofler, Heinrich? ]
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Escape On Venus Tarzana
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The DOs and DON'Ts of Yesterday: Little Book of Early American Know-How
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The Man Who Lost His Head
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Goldrush Days With Mark Twain, Illustrated with Woodcuts By Henry J. Glintenkamp
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The Professional Cosmetologist
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The Magyars; The Birth of a European Nation
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RIP VAN WINKLE
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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Mister Rogers' Plan and Play Book: Daily Activities from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
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The Owl Tree, Choose Your Own Adventure #36
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