GRANDVILLE Jean-Ignace-Isidore

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GRANDVILLE Jean-Ignace-Isidore
The Animated Flowers. Introductions by Alphonse Karr, text by Taxile Delord. 1847. 2 volumes large in-8; Havana percaline, smooth spines and plates richly decorated with special gilded irons after Grandville, representing flowers, branches, butterflies, snails and dragonfly. Golden slices. Superb Lenègre binding. These cardboard boxes decorated with a gilded and non-polychrome decoration are from the first edition. Original edition, first edition characterized by the continuous pagination), it is illustrated with two frontispices, 50 plates on steel finely hand colored and 2 black plates for botany. The second volume is followed by: Botanique des Dames (pp. 103-166, (1) f.) - Horticulture des Dames (pp. IV, 169-234). Slight restorations of both works. Nice copy.
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