Les Etoiles Dernière féerie [avec] Astronomie des dames par le Comte Foelix
[The Stars. Last Fairy Tale [with] Ladies’ Astronomy by Count Foelix]
G. de Gonet|Paris s. d. [1849]|18 x 27 cm|relié
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First edition of this posthumous work illustrated with 15 hand-coloured steel engravings by Charles Geoffroy, including two frontispieces and a portrait of Grandville. Publisher’s full pictorial cloth binding, the spine slightly faded, signed "Haaraus" in the plate, original yellow endpapers and pastedowns a little soiled at the margins. Discreet restoration to the head of the upper joint. Foxing to the half-title, the first endpaper and some leaves, also affecting the tissue guards and, more lightly, the plates. A splendid publication, undoubtedly one of Granville’s most poetic works, in which—as in his Fleurs animées—the artist personifies the celestial bodies as young women.