Taxile DELORD

Taxile DELORD

Born1815
Died1877
LanguageFrench
NationalityFrance
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DELORD, Taxile
  1. Les fleurs animées
    J.J GRANDVILLE, Alphonse KARR

    Les fleurs animées[The Flowers Personified]

    Garnier frères|Paris 1867|17.5 x 27.7 cm (Grd. in-8)|Woodcut, Watercolor|2 vol. reliés

    Illustrated edition by Grandville, engraved by Geoffroy, comprising 29 hand-coloured plates hors-texte in the first volume, and in the second, 23 hand-coloured plates hors-texte along with 2 black botanical plates illustrating the physiology of plants, "Horticulture des dames" and "Culture des fleurs." For this edition, the plates were re-coloured by Maubert, with fresher and more vivid tones, considered superior to the first edition. Accompanied by 3 pages of sheet music for the romance Le myosotis. 
    Contemporary half blue shagreen bindings. Spines with raised bands decorated with three gilt panels. Some scattered foxing, title-page of volume 2 with spotting. A few leaves slightly...

    €700
  2. Un autre monde - Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations, pérégrinations, excursions, stations, cosmogonies, fantasmagories, rêveries, folatreries, facéties, lubies, métamorphoses, zoomorphoses, lithomorphoses, métempsychoses, apothéoses et autres choses
    Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE, Taxile DELORD

    Un autre monde - Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations, pérégrinations, excursions, stations, cosmogonies, fantasmagories, rêveries, folatreries, facéties, lubies, métamorphoses, zoomorphoses, lithomorphoses, métempsychoses, apothéoses et autres choses

    Henri Fournier|Paris 1844|19.80 x 27.40 cm|relié
    First edition of this work considered Grandville's masterpiece and first printing of the illustrations.
    Work illustrated with a frontispiece, 36 superb hand-colored plates hors-texte as well as 146 black wood engravings in-text. Printed on strong laid paper, the plates on tinted paper.
    Bound in half red morocco with corners signed at the top of the endpaper L. David. Slightly later binding, ca 1860-1870. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Traces of rubbing. Scattered foxing. 2 leaves 174 and 175 awkwardly cut shorter.
    Handsome copy of this beautiful book, precursor to surrealism.
    This delirious and prodigious production by Grandville and Delord (whose...
    €1,800
  3. Un autre monde - Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations, pérégrinations, excursions, stations, cosmogonies, fantasmagories, rêveries, folatreries, facéties, lubies, métamorphoses, zoomorphoses, lithomorphoses, métempsychoses, apothéoses et autres choses
    Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE, Taxile DELORD

    Un autre monde - Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations, pérégrinations, excursions, stations, cosmogonies, fantasmagories, rêveries, folatreries, facéties, lubies, métamorphoses, zoomorphoses, lithomorphoses, métempsychoses, apothéoses et autres choses

    Henri Fournier|Paris 1844|19 x 27 cm|relié
    First edition of this work considered Grandville's masterpiece and first printing of the illustrations.
    Work illustrated with a frontispiece, 36 superb hand-colored plates and 146 black woodcuts in the text.
    Contemporary half-shagreen binding in red, spine with raised bands outlined with gilt fillets and decorated with triple gilt compartments ornamented with gilt floral motifs, joints cracked at head and foot, some rubbing traces on spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt.
    Handsome copy, virtually free from foxing, of this beautiful book that was a precursor to surrealism.
    This delirious and prodigious production by...
    €1,500
  4. Les métamorphoses du jour
    Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE, Louis LURINE

    Les métamorphoses du jour

    Garnier frères|Paris 1869|18.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
    New edition with some parts in first edition as revised and completed by Jules Janin for the text and expanded with numerous tailpieces and headpieces by Grandville for the illustration. A bibliography of books illustrated by Grandville/
    Later half red sheep binding (ca 1920), Jansenist spine with raised bands, small traces of rubbing on the slightly faded spine. Set of beautiful freshness, but some pale browning in the margins at the beginning of the work. The preserved cover restored with a strip of paper to be restored. Inversion of leaves at the beginning of the work, leaf 3 appearing before leaf 1.
    Handsome copy.
    Work illustrated with a frontispiece and 70 hand-colored...
    €800
  5. Les célébrités du jour. 1860-61
    Louis JOURDAN, Taxile DELORD

    Les célébrités du jour. 1860-61

    Aux bureaux du Journal du siècle|Paris 1860|23.50 x 30 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Half red cloth binding, smooth spine, some rubbing to headcaps, marbled paper boards with some scratches and a tear at head of front board, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped, some tears to edges.
    About Eugène Delacroix, Georges (sic) Sand, Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, Alphonse de Lamartine, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Rossini, Jules Michelet...
    Some foxing.
    €100
  6. Un autre monde - Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations, pérégrinations, excursions, stations, cosmogonies, fantasmagories, rêveries, folatreries, facéties, lubies, métamorphoses, zoomorphoses, lithomorphoses, métempsychoses, apothéoses et autres choses
    Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE, Taxile DELORD

    Un autre monde - Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations, pérégrinations, excursions, stations, cosmogonies, fantasmagories, rêveries, folatreries, facéties, lubies, métamorphoses, zoomorphoses, lithomorphoses, métempsychoses, apothéoses et autres choses

    Henri Fournier|Paris 1844|19 x 27 cm|relié

    First edition of this work considered to be Grandville's masterpiece, with illustrations in first print.


    Illustrated frontispiece, 36 colored illustrations and 146 in-text woodcuts in black.


    Contemporary binding in blue half glazed calf, sunned spine with gilt arabesques, small holes at foot of spine, marbled paper boards, mould made endpapers and flyleaves, speckled edges. 
    This exuberant and prodigious production of Grandville and Delord (whose name is printed at the bottom of page 292), judged by its contemporaries as already being mad, was rediscovered by the Surrealists.

    "Published in 1844 by éditions Fournier, Un autre monde is Grandville's...

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  7. Les fleurs animées
    Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE, Alphonse KARR

    Les fleurs animées

    Garnier frères|Paris 1867|18.80 x 26.70 cm|2 volumes reliés
    Illustrated edition including 29 hand-colored wood-engraved plates by Geoffroy after Grandville for the first volume, and for the second volume 23 hand-colored wood-engraved plates by the same artists as well as 2 botanical plates in black illustrating the physiology of plants, "Horticulture des dames," and "Culture des fleurs." Plates for this new edition have been recoloured by Maubert, making the tones fresher and more contrasted than the first edition. 3 pages of musical scores for the romance titled "Le myosotis".
    Contemporary green half shagreen binding, raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons and fillets, covers stamped in blind, marbled paper endpapers and flyleaves, some...
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  8. Un autre monde - Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations, pérégrinations, excursions, stations, cosmogonies, fantasmagories, rêveries, folatreries, facéties, lubies, métamorphoses, zoomorphoses, lithomorphoses, métempsychoses, apothéoses et autres choses
    Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE, Taxile DELORD

    Un autre monde - Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations, pérégrinations, excursions, stations, cosmogonies, fantasmagories, rêveries, folatreries, facéties, lubies, métamorphoses, zoomorphoses, lithomorphoses, métempsychoses, apothéoses et autres choses

    Henri Fournier|Paris 1844|19 x 27 cm|relié
    First edition of this work considered to be Grandville's masterpiece, with illustrations in first print. Illustrated frontispiece, 36 colored illustrations and 146 in-text woodcuts in black.
    Contemporary binding in half black shagreen, spine with raised bands ruled in gilt, black paper boards framed in gilt, a scratch with loss of paper to the upper right corner of the upper board, small scuffs on the covers, yellow endpapers, all edges gilt.
    Handsome copy of this beautiful book, a precursor to Surrealism.
    This exuberant and prodigious production of Grandville and Delord (whose name is printed at the bottom of page 292), judged by its contemporaries as already...
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  10. Les fleurs animées
    Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE, Alphonse KARR

    Les fleurs animées

    Garnier frères|Paris 1867|17 x 27.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
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  11. Un autre monde. Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations, pérégrinations, excursions, stations, cosmogonies, fantasmagories, rêveries, folatreries, facéties, lubies, métamorphoses, zoomorphoses, lithomorphoses, métempsychoses, apothéoses et autres choses
    Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE, Taxile DELORD

    Un autre monde. Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations, pérégrinations, excursions, stations, cosmogonies, fantasmagories, rêveries, folatreries, facéties, lubies, métamorphoses, zoomorphoses, lithomorphoses, métempsychoses, apothéoses et autres choses

    Henri Fournier|Paris 1844|19 x 26.50 cm|relié
    Henri Fournier | Paris 1844 | 19 x 26,5 cm | bound in calf
    First edition of this work considered to be Grandville's masterpiece and first print of the illustrations.
    Illustrated with a frontispiece, 36 superb colored plates and 146 in-text wood engravings in black.

    Contemporary half blond calf binding, spine lightly faded and decorated with gilt arabesques, (erroneous) gilt date at the foot, paste paper boards, caillouté marbled endpapers. Lower leading edges a little rubbed, lower corner of the second board a little sunken. Some very discreet foxing mostly at the start of the volume. Owners stamp on the half-title page.

    A beautiful copy...
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  13. Les métamorphoses du jour
    Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE, Louis LURINE

    Les métamorphoses du jour

    Garnier frères|Paris 1869|18.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
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  14. Les fleurs animées
    Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE, Alphonse KARR

    Les fleurs animéesAnimated Flowers

    Garnier frères|Paris 1867|17 x 27.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
    KARR Alphonse & DELORD Taxile & Comte FOELIX
    illustrated by GRANDVILLE Jean-Jacques
    Les Fleurs animées [Animated Flowers]
    Garnier frères, Paris 1867, 17 x 27,5 cm, navy-blue half shagreen
    Edition illustrated by Grandville with 29 insert watercolor plates in the first volume, and 23 insert watercolor plates and 2 black plates in the second.
    Navy-blue half shagreen, spine divided into five compartments with curved fillets, gilt double fillets and floral motifs to compartments, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, one corner frayed. Occasional spotting, a transparent dampstain at the base of all leaves in the first volume.
    Text by...
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  15. Les métamorphoses du jour
    Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE, Louis LURINE

    Les métamorphoses du jour

    Garnier frères|Paris 1869|18.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
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  17. Les fleurs animées
    Taxile DELORD, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE

    Les fleurs animées

    A. Delavau|Bruxelles [Brussels] 1852|17.50 x 26.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
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  18. Les fleurs animées
    Alphonse KARR, Taxile DELORD

    Les fleurs animées

    Gabriel de Gonet|Paris 1847|19 x 27 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
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  19. Messieurs les Cosaques, relation charivarique, comique et surtout véridique des hauts faits des Russes en orient
    CHAM [pen name of Amédée de NOE] Taxile DELORD

    Messieurs les Cosaques, relation charivarique, comique et surtout véridique des hauts faits des Russes en orient

    Victor Lecou|Paris 1854-1855|12 x 18.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
    Edition illustrated with 200 in-text vignettes by Cham.
    Half Russian green morocco bindings, spines with four raised bands decorated with gilt compartments enhanced with gilt and blind typographical motifs, gilt dates at foot, gilt fillets on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edges gilt.
    Foxing, bookseller's description label pasted on an endpaper of the first volume.
    Provenance: from the library of Henri Monnier with his bookplate pasted on the verso of the front boards.
    €100
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