G. de Gonet | Paris [1849] | 19 x 28,5 cm | publisher‘s binding
First edition of this posthumous work illustrated with 15 insert steel-engraved plates by Charles Geoffroy and enhanced in color, including two frontispieces and a portrait of Grandville.
Publisher's binding with full historiated cream boards, first board illustrated, browned endpapers as is usual for this period.
Rare interior foxing.
Superb publication, arguably one of Grandville's most poetic, in which – as for his Fleurs animées – the artist represents celestial bodies with young women.