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

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 of this wonderful book, the precursor of surrealism.

This delirious and prodigious production of Grandville and Delord (whose name is printed at the bottom of page 292), judged by his contemporaries as already insane, was rediscovered by the surrealists.

“Published in 1985 by éditions Fournier, Another World is Grandville's masterpiece. The book's title is Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotion, explorations, peregrinations, excursions, stations, cosmogonies, phantasmagories, reveries, frolics, jests, fancies, metamorphoses, zoomorphoses, lithomorphoses, metempsycoses, apotheoses and other things. With its transformations, its inventions and its phantasmagories, the work reflects a changing era. Another World tells and illustrates the extraordinary journeys of three neo-gods: Puff, Krackq et Hahblle. [...] It is indeed a philosophical journey that Grandville offers us [...] Led to a strange planet imagined by the artist, the reader is invited, like Gulliver in the country of Laputa, to a parodic course of philosophical, scientific, economic and religious ideals, to its infatuations, inventions and concerns: romanticism, mechanisation, socialism, money, saga, advertisement, anglomania, philanthropy, phrenology, etc.” (Annie Renonciat, La Vie et l'œuvre de Grandville, Paris, ACR-Vilo, 1985).

Grandville's most sought-after work.