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Published by [Paris: French Publisher, circa 1830]., 1830
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Art / Print / Poster
Condition: Good. Hand colored engraving. 25.5 x 18.5 cm. (sheet). Very Good.
Published by Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils Êditeurs, 1870
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Sm. 8vo. x + 512pp. Frontis., 240 ills. (one for every fable). French text. Spotting throughout, heavy in parts, marbled e.ps., prize bookplate, half calf with marbled boards, browned and rubbed, corners scuffed with wear, head of upper joint sl. cracked, gilt ruled raised bands dec. gilt compartments and chipped gilt lettered leather title label to rubbed spine with sl. wear at head and lacking much of gilt decoration, a.e.g. US$49.
Published by Torino, Ruggero Aprile Editore (Via S. Quintino, 43), 1970
Seller: Studio bibliografico De Carlo, Carmagnola, TO, Italy
I ed. Ruggero Aprile (I ed. Paris, J. Hetzel, Éditeur 1842). Traduzione dal francese di Francesco Delmastro. VIII/ 288/ cart./ sovraccoperta in carta avorio con titoli in nero e disegni in nero del Grandville (Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard) ai piatti/ cofanetto editoriale rifinito in tela verde oliva con riproduzioni in bruno delle incisioni del Grandville (primo piatto: il cartiglio dell'occhiello dell'ed. del 1842 - ultimo piatto: un'illustrazione). Con illustrazioni in nero f.t. del Grandville. Sguardie in carta avorio con riproduzioni in grigio verde dei disegni del Grandville. Stato buono (cofanetto lievemente polveroso - sovraccoperta leggermente usurata ai margini e con il dorso fortemente brunito - qualche piccola abrasione al dorso). Indice: Presentazione - Prologo-Cronaca parlamentare; P.J. Stahl - Storia di una lepre; P.J. Stahl - Memorie di un coccodrillo; E. de la Bedolliere - Pene di cuore di una gatta inglese; De Balzac - Le avventure di un farfallone; P.J. Stahl - Gli animali medici; P. Bernard - Corte criminale di giustizia animale; E. de la Bedollierre - L'orso; L. Baude - orazione funebreee di un baco da seta; P.J. stahl - Al lettore; P.J. Stahl.
Published by London: Willoughby and Co, 1842
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Large 8vo. xxxiv + [iv] + 352pp. Frontis., dec. initial letters and numerous engravings designed by Grandville. Light marginal browning, faint contemporary ownership inscription, gilt lettered dark browned blind embossed cloth with gilt device to upper board, some minor soiling and rubbing, corners very sl. bumped, gilt ruling and decoration to spine worn with some loss at head and tail. US$70.
Published by Paris: Garnier Frères Libraires N.d. c., 1851
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
New Ed. Large 8vo. [iv] + 308pp. Profusely illus. throughout. French text. Spotting throughout heavy in part, e.ps. lightly browned and sl. spotted, black morocco backed blind embossed cloth boards, boards rubbed, corners worn, gilt ruled raised bands dec. gilt compartments and gilt title to sl. rubbed spine, a.e.g. US$84.
8vo. Mit gest. Titel sowie 118 (st. 120) Holzstich-Taf. von Grandville. 2 Bl., XX, 461 S. Hldr. d. Zt. m. goldgeprägt. Rückentitel. Einband etw. berieben. Stellenweise stärker stockfleckig. gr.
Published by Paris: H. Fournier, 1846
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Large 8vo. [viii] + viii + 392pp. Illus. title page, numerous ills., head and tail pieces etc. French text. Spotted throughout heavy in parts, marbled e.ps., brown morocco backed cloth boards with large gilt oval decoration to boards, corners bumped with some wear, gilt ruled raised bands dec. gilt compartments and gilt title to sl. rubbed spine, t.e.g. US$105.
Published by Paris: J.J. Dubochet le Chevalier et Cie, 1846
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
First Edition
1st Ed. Royal 8vo. [viii] + 456pp. + [ii]. Profusely illus. throughout. French text. Ex.-libris P. Scouldudi, marbled e.ps., spotting throughout, half morocco with cloth covered boards faded to edges, corners sl. rubbed, gilt ruled raised bands dec. gilt compartments and gilt title to sl. rubbed spine sl. bumped and chipped at head and tail. US$105.
Published by Schneider et Langrand, 1842
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Large 8vo. [viii] + 386pp. Profusely ills. Light browning, inscription to half title, dec. eps., contemporary leather backed marbled boards, extremities rubbed with loss to spine and edges. First published in 1842-44. US$119.
Published by Paris: H. Fournier Ainé Êditeur, 1838
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
New Ed. 2 vols. in 1. Large 8vo. [iv] + xxviii + 292pp. + [iv] + 312pp. Profusely illus. throughout, dec. chapter headings. French text. Sporadic spotting heavy in parts, frontis. torn with 50% loss and rebacked, contemporary inscription to half title, marbled e.ps. and edges, half green morocco with cloth boards, minor soiling, corners and joints rubbed and sl. scuffed, gilt filleted raised bands gilt ruling and gilt lettering to faded and sl. rubbed spine. US$140.
Paris, Hetzel, 1867 ; petit in-4, 636 pp., demi-basane rouge de l'époque, dos joliment orné à nerfs, plats de percaline rouge avec filets d'encadrement estampés à froid (petits manques de percaline aux coins, quelques épidermures superficielles au dos). Nouvelle édition, illustrée de nombreuses vignettes gravées sur bois de Grandville (le premier tirage date de 1842). Contributions littéraires de Musset, Balzac, L. Baudé, E. de La Bédollière, P. Bernard, J. Janin, Ed. Lemoine, Charles Nodier, George Sand, etc. "Ce dernier livre est supérieur aux précédents par le fantastique de l'illustration. Grandville aimait particulièrement cette atmosphère de rêve, ce mélange de la réalité et de la féerie" (Adhémar et Seguin. Le Livre romantique, 1968, p. 87). Bon exemplaire malgré de rares rousseurs et les petits défauts signalés à la reliure. 1867.
Published by Paris H. Fournier Ainé, 1839
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Nouvelle Edition. 3 vols. 100 ills. Some browning, marbled e.ps., handsome contemporary red calf backed marbled boards, minor marking and wear, dec. gilt ruling with gilt motifs and lettering to lightly faded spines. Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780 1857) was a prolific French poet and chansonnier (songwriter). This volume of his song lyrics was first published in 1836. Additional postage may be necessary US$175.
Published by H. Fournier Aine, 1839
Seller: Ivy Ridge Books/Scott Cranin, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Two volume set of Fontaine's Fables is bound in red leather with gold decoration. The corners are rubbed, spine edges and head/tail rubbed, some light rubbing on the raised bands. Pen name inside front cover Vol I, some foxing throughout both volumes. many engraved illustrations, a beautiful pair of books. All orders packed with care, independent bookseller since 2011.
Published by J.-J. Dubochet, Le Chevalier, Paris, 1846
First Edition
4to. Mit zahlr. Holzstich-Illustrationen von Grandville im Text u. auf 32 Taf. 4 Bl., 460 S. Grüne OLwd. m. farbig u. goldgeprägt. Deckelvignette u. Rückenillustration. Goldschnitt. Sander 587. - Erste Ausgabe mit den Illustrationen von Grandville. - Einband stärker berieben, Vordergelenk angeplatzt u. sorgfältig geleimt. Stellenweise stockfleckig, sehr schmaler Wasserrand an Oberkante. 2100 gr.
Published by Paris: J. Hetzel, 1868
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Edition Complete, revue et augmentee. Royal 8vo. [iv] + 636pp. Frontis., vignette title page, profusely illus. throughout with woodcuts. French text. Some occasional sporadic spotting, silken e.ps. very lightly browned, head and tail of upper hinge sl. tender, morocco backed navy cloth boards, some minor rubbing, fading to top of boards, sl. wear to corners, tail of upper joint cracking, raised bands sl. rubbed dec. gilt compartments and gilt title to spine, a.e.g. US$244.
Published by Paris: Garnier Freres, circa 1870, 1870
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. 4to. Half red morocco red binding; [6], 544, [7]; 49 handcolored full page plates hors texte. Very good. Centproverbes : Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée pour le texte par M. Quitard. Paris,Garnier Frères, s.d. In-4 (26,5 x 17), demi-chagrin bordeaux, dos à 4 nerfs,compartiments décorés. Illustré par Grandville. Défraîchi.
Published by Paris: Gustave Havard, 1854
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Royal 8vo. [iv] + xxviii + 283pp. + [iii]. French text. Vignette title page, 70 hand coloured wood engraved plates. Marginal browning and spotting throughout heavy in parts, dec. gilt & pink e.ps. with sm. ownership label, upper hinge cracked but firm, half red morocco with marbled boards, rubbed, corners worn, joints rubbed, head of upper joint and tail of lower joint cracked, raised bands gilt ruled compartments and gilt title to lightly faded and sl. rubbed spine, t.e.g. Grandville's first real success was Les Métamorphoses du jour (The Metamorphoses of the Day), a set of 70 colour lithographs first published in 1829. In this series, figures with human bodies but the heads of various animals, from fish to elephants, are depicted acting out a human comedy, perceptively satirizing the bourgeois of Paris and human nature in general. It established his reputation with the public and he was thereafter sought after as an illustrator by publishers and periodicals. US$349.
In-8 de (4)-400 pp., demi-chagrin aubergine, dos orné à nerfs (reliure de l'époque). Édition originale et premier tirage des gravures. Frontispice et 50 gravures sur bois hors-textes dont l'autoportrait de Granville page 354, lettrines, en-têtes et culs-de-lampe.Ex-libris "Marquis de Civille" sur le contreplat supérieur ; Léon Poret de Civille (1779-1857) fut autour de 1830 maire de la commune de Bois Heroult en Normandie.Des rousseurs mais bon exemplaire.Vicaire III, 1123 ; Carteret III, 282 : « Livre estimé, un des meilleurs de Grandville ».
Paris, J.-J. Dubochet et Cie, Editeurs, 33 rue de Seine, 1842. In-8 relié de 292 pages au format 15,5 x 4 x 24 cm. Reliure demi chagrin vert foncé, avec plats papier. Page de garde et tranches décorées. Dos rond à 5 nerfs avec titre doré. Plats, coins, nerfs du dos et mors avec petits frottements. Intérieur frais, proche du parfait. Notice sur la Vie et les Ouvrages de Florian par P.-J. Stahl en début d'ouvrage. Fables suivies de Tobie et de Ruth, poèmes tirés de l'écriture sainte, par Florian. Frontispice ( curieusement placé avant la page de titre ), et une centaine de superbes illustrations en noir, in et hors texte, par Grandville. Bel état général. Rare édition originale en premier tirage.
Published by Paris: Gustave Havard., 1854
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. 8vo. 17 x 26.5cm. XXVIII, 284pp. Half green cloth and marbled boards. OCLC Number: 743152006; light foxing, mainly on text only; few pages loose. With 69 of 70 handcolored plates. In-4° demi toile verte à coins, xxviii, 282 pp. 69 planches en couleur sur 70 (manque la planche 66). Rousseurs éparses, 1 planche détachée.
Published by Paris Gabriel de Gonet, 1847
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
First Edition
1st Ed. 1 parts in 1 volume. 262pp. + Title page + pp.(263-364). + iv + 62pp + [ii] + iv + pp.(65-132). Hand coloured half titles, 2 plain engraved plates, 50 hand coloured engraved plates. Some browning and spotting, marbled e.ps. and edges, inscription to front blank, contemporary calf, triple gilt rule edged boards, some darkening and wear, gilt ruling and chipped gilt lettered labels to spine rubbed with sl. loss to tail. One of Grandville's supreme achievements, at a time when French printing technology was ascendant, was the above work, a series of images that are both poetic and satirical. US$559.
Published by Paris, Gustave Havard Librairie., 1854
Book First Edition
4°. 27,5 x 18,5 cm. Vortitel, Titelblatt mit Vignette, XXVIII, 283 Seiten, 70 Blatt (Tafeln). Handeinband. Roter Halblederband der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und goldgeprägtem ornamentalem Buchschmuck. Erste Ausgabe mit den Texten von Second u. a. Französischsprachige Ausgabe. Mit 70 kolorierten Holzstichtafeln. Einbandkanten berieben, Ecken bestoßen, Blätter teils stockfleckig. Insgesamt gutes bis sehr gutes Exemplar. First edition with the texts of Second et al. French-language edition. With 70 colored wood engraving plates. Hand binding. Red half leather strap of the time with gold-embossed title on the spine and gold-embossed ornamental book decorations. Binding edges rubbed, corners bumped, sheets partly foxed. Overall good to very good copy. Sprache: deutsch.
Grand in-8 de (4)-LXIII-480 pp., demi-maroquin brun à coins, dos à nerfs, tête dorée, non rogné (reliure de l'époque). Titre en rouge et noir, frontispice et 70 gravures sur papier fort d'après Grandville, gravés sur bois par Desperet et coloriés. Texte par Albéric Second, Louis Lurine Clément Caraguel, Taxil Delor, H. Beaulieu, Louis Huart, Charles Monselet, Julien Lemer.Cette deuxième édition posthume de l'oeuvre de Granville, précédée d'une notice par Charles Blanc, est revue et complétée pour le texte par « le prince de la critique » Jules Janin et augmentée de nombreux culs-de-lampes, têtes de pages, etc. Elle contient les mêmes planches que la première édition posthume de 1854 chez Gustave Havard, mais se distingue par plusieurs particularités : elle ne porte pas de nom d'imprimeur, la plupart des palnches sont signées J. J. Granville et sont imprimées sur papier fort ; les légendes sont modifiées ou augmentées.Très bon exemplaire avec très peu de rousseurs. Vicaire, V, 787.
Published by Paris, Gabriel de Gonet., 1847
3 parties en 1 volume. 4°. 262 p., 2 f.n.ch. (titres), 16 p., p. 279 -364, IV p., p. 105-166, 1 f., IV p., p. (169)-236. Avec 2 frontispices, 50 gravures coloriées, 2 gravures en n/b. Reliure demi cuir brun foncé, titre, caissons et tranches dorés (sign. Sénèz. R.). Carteret III, 286. - Première tirage de l'édition originale à part de la page 1-16 de la deuxième partie et de "La Botanique des Dames" qui porte la pagination du deuxième tirage. - Exlibris. Quelques rousseurs. Sprache: französisch.
Grand in-8 de (4)-LXIII-480 pp., demi-chagrin rouge à coins, dos à nerfs, non rogné (reliure de l'époque). Titre en rouge et noir, frontispice et 70 gravures sur papier fort d'après Grandville, gravés sur bois par Desperet et coloriés. Texte par Albéric Second, Louis Lurine Clément Caraguel, Taxil Delor, H. Beaulieu, Louis Huart, Charles Monselet, Julien Lemer.Cette deuxième édition posthume de l'oeuvre de Grandville, précédée d'une notice par Charles Blanc, est revue et complétée pour le texte par « le prince de la critique » Jules Janin et augmentée de nombreux culs-de-lampe, têtes de pages, etc. Elle contient les mêmes planches que la première édition posthume de 1854 chez Gustave Havard, mais se distingue par plusieurs particularités : elle ne porte pas de nom d'imprimeur, la plupart des planches sont signées J. J. Gradnville et sont imprimées sur papier fort ; les légendes sont modifiées ou augmentées.Bel exemplaire avec très peu de rousseurs. Vicaire, V, 787.
Published by J. Hetzel et Paulin, Paris, 1842
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. large 8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 386, [6]; 2 p.l., 390, [6]. with half-titles. 201 wood-engraved plates (incl 2 additional titles), numerous head & tailpieces, initials, & vignettes by Brévière & others after designs by Grandville. All Edges Gilt. Bound in leather backed dark green pebbled cloth. A little light foxing, but a very good clean copy. Brivois, pp. 364 - 370. Vicaire, VII, 406 - 416, Ray 194. Originally issued in parts. this is the first book edition. "The moving force behind this book was its publisher P.-J. Hetzel, who himself contributed many chapters under the pseudonym of P.-J. Stahl Through Grandville's animals, Hetzel and his colleagues offered a witty and telling commentary on contemporary politics and personalities. Bouchot described the result as the best satire on French manners during the middle of the century, recalling "the anger to which it gave rise, the outbursts of laughter it provoked and the lawsuits of which it ran the risk." These allusions pass largely unnoticed today, but Grandville's animals remain as amusing as ever, thanks to the wit and verve of his compositions. The types and situations he depicts are indeed "of every period and every country." "The final plate shows the artist at the zoo of the Jardin des Plantes. He is sketching the visiting creatures who in turn are peering at cages containing Hetzel, Balzac, Jules Janin, and other authors of the Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux. It should be noted that the engravings for this book are by Brévière, the one craftsman whose renderings of his work Grandville refused to criticize." (Ray) Carteret III 553. Ray, The Art Of The French Illustrated Book 1700 to 1914, 194 (citing incorrect number of plates).
Paris, Hetzel, s.d. (vers 1895) ; petit in-4, 636 pp. + 8 pp. de catalogue Hetzel, cartonnage décoré de l'éditeur, dos lisse "à la tortue", plats décorés de frises d'encadrement et de fleurons en noir, décor titré en or sur le plat supérieur (baptisé ironiquement "badigeonnographie" par Grandville, qui avait également servi pour les prospectus et les affiches qui annonçaient la publication de l'ouvrage), tranches dorées. Nouvelle édition, illustrée de nombreuses vignettes gravées sur bois de Grandville (le premier tirage date de 1842). Contributions littéraires de Musset, Balzac, L. Baudé, E. de La Bédollière, P. Bernard, J. Janin, Ed. Lemoine, Charles Nodier, George Sand, etc. "Ce dernier livre est supérieur aux précédents par le fantastique de l'illustration. Grandville aimait particulièrement cette atmosphère de rêve, ce mélange de la réalité et de la féerie" (Adhémar et Seguin. Le Livre romantique, 1968, p. 87). Le catalogue Hetzel est daté de 1895. Cartonnage spectaculaire, en excellent état, très proche du neuf, condition exceptionnelle. 1895.
Published by H. Fournier ainé, Paris, 1840
Signed
1 vol. in-8 de (4)-610-(1) pp., demi-veau lavallière à coins, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre en maroquin noir (reliure de l'époque signée Bauzonnet). Premier tirage des illustrations d'après Grandville. Frontispice et 40 planches hors texte gravé sur bois avec légendes, d'après Grandville et Français (ce dernier pour les paysages). Vignettes dans le texte.Bel exemplaire dans une jolie reliure signée, quelques rousseurs.Carteret III, 241 ; Vicaire III, 750 ; Fléty, Dictionnaires des relieurs français, 114.
Published by Paris: Gabriel De Gonet, Éditeur, 1847, 1847
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Grandville's Favorite Work "Poetic and Gracious Originality, Dexterity of Mind and Observation" [GRANDVILLE, J.J., illustrator]. DELORD, Taxile. Les Fleurs Animées. Introductions Par Alph. Karr, Texte Par Taxile Delord Première Partie [&] Deuxième Partie. Paris: Gabriel De Gonet, Éditeur, [no date but 1847]. First edition, second issue, with discontinued pagination in vol. II and with the frontispieces signed "E. de Soye, à Paris". Two large octavo volumes bound in one (10 x 6 3/4 inches; 254 x 172 mm.). [ii], blank], [iii-v], 6-260, [2, table des matières]; [iv], [i]-iv, [1]-102,[105]-166, [2 table des matières, verso blank], [i]-iv, [169]-234, [2, table des matières, verso blank] pp. Added hand-colored wood-engraved title in each volume, fifty hand-colored wood-engraved plates by Geoffroy after Grandville, and two unsigned engraved botanical plates. All plates with original tissue-guards. The final sections are "Botanique des dames," which includes two botanical plates illustrating the physiology of plants, "Horticulture des dames," and "Culture des fleurs." Publishers full dark brown morocco over beveled boards, covers elaborately stamped in gilt. Spine with five shallow raised bands, elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt baord edges, pale gray endpapers, all edges gilt. Some light foxing to text pages only. An excellent example of Grandville's favorite work. "After Un autre monde the fifty-two colored engravings of Les fleurs animées are the chief example of Grandville's effort to penetrate to the meaning of objects like an â intellectual miner' (preface to Les étoiles, p. xi), even though only fifteen of the designs are entirely from his hand (Bouchot, p. 58). Though the images in the book are of Grandville's time, his manner of proceeding is that of an artist of the modern movement, exploring the same subject through a sequence of slight but significant variations. Most of the plates show an elegant lady in a garden, her dress covered with an extraordinary pattern of flowers. She is sometimes accompanied by respectful creatures, animals and insects, even fish and reptiles. As the series nears its end there are more elaborate scenes of flower-ladies in groups. A little world is created, governed by its own laws, which was full of significance to Grandville and hence becomes so to the reader as well. His first biographer wrote in the preface to Les étoiles (pp. xiii-ix): â The Fleurs animées are the very thought of Grandville; they were his favorite work, the work into the execution of which he put all that was in him of poetic and gracious originality, of dexterity of mind and observation, of that prodigious perspicacity which made him divine affinities hitherto unperceived by anyone and discover new worlds'" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book). Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 198. Vicaire III, cols. 133-134.
Published by Fournier aîné, Paris, 1838
Signed
2 volumes in-8 (242 x 160 mm), frontispice, (4)-XXVIII-292 pp., 72 planches ; (4)-312 pp., 48 planches, demi-maroquin rouge à coins, dos lisses ornés, tnon rogné (Simier R. du Roi). Premier tirage avec les planches tirées sur chine.Une des plus belles éditions romantiques, illustrée d'un frontispice sur chine, 14 faux-titres et 120 planches tirées sur chine, le tout gravé sur bois d'après les dessins de Grandville. Bel exemplaire malgré quelques rousseurs, dans une fine reliure de l'époque signée Simier.Brivois, 233 ; Carteret, III 359 : « Le livre est fort rare en bel état » ; Vicaire IV, 897.