Grandville, Jean-Ignace-Isidore. - Lot 125

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Grandville, Jean-Ignace-Isidore. - Lot 125
Grandville, Jean-Ignace-Isidore. Another world. Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions,... cosmogonies, phantasmagorias... whims, metamorphoses, zoomorphoses, lithomorphoses, metempsycoses, apotheoses and other things. Ill. by Grandville. Paris, H. Fournier. 1844. 295pp. Large in-8. Original endpapers. Publisher's black percaline boards with monochrome and gilt decorations. On the first plate, a beautiful plate by Liebherre reproducing the frontispiece, on the second plate, a gilt medallion representing a steam and sail engine sailing, the spine is illustrated with characters and animals. Gilt edges. First edition of the most extraordinary work of Grandville, written and illustrated in the surrealist vein. Frontispiece in black and 36 colored plates, numerous woodcut vignettes in the text, all by Grandville. Sporadic foxing. We usually meet this monochrome plate only on the luxury copies in full chagrin. Here one of the two known copies with this monochrome plate in percaline! Of an infinite rarity...
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