GRANDVILLE (Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard, said):... Lot 102

GRANDVILLE (Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard, said): Les Fleurs animées. Text by Taxile Delord. Paris, De Gonet, 1847. 2 volumes bound in one volume. 17,5 by 26 cm. 52 plates in chromolithographs off-text (with the two frontispieces) and two plates in black (complete). Contemporary black half-chagrin, 4 nerves, cloth boards decorated with 4 large spandrels, and a central figure (a woman with a bird), all edges gilt. One spine cracked on 10 cm. Throat slightly relaxed. Freckles present throughout the book, but having fortunately spared the engravings of GRANDVILLE. First edition, illustrated with 52 plates by Grandville, engraved by GEOFFROY. The following editions will have a different mode of printing the engravings. The most delicate of the works illustrated by GRANDVILLE, here in an enviable copy.