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 nam
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 nam
€1,800