Un Autre Monde: Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations, peregrinations ... &c.

by GRANDVILLE, (Jean-Ignace-Everard Gérard). (Delord, Taxile).

$20,552 · Offered by Biblio

Paris.: H. Fournier, Libraire-Editeur., 1844.. Original publisher's green morocco-backed green percaline, the front board with large central pictorial vignette reproducing the frontispiece beneath the pictorial title vignette, rear board with gilt vignette from 'Petites Misères de la Vie Humaine', banded green morocco spine with elaborate gilt tooling and titles in five compartments, marbled endpapers, green silk placemarker, t.e.g.. Large 8vo. (272 x 212 mm).. Half-title in red with pseudo-privilège verso (also in red), leaf with frontispiece verso, printed title in red and printed text illustrated with 36 hors-texte wood-engraved plates all with additional colouring by hand and 146 wood-engravings in the text, final two leaves with 'Table', 'Explication' and 'Errata' verso. [PROVENANCE: With the contemporary printed bookplate in red and black of 'L[ouis]. C[harles]. A[dolphe]. Chicora' (1806 - 1883) with the text 'Conseiller au conseil des mines' to front pastedown]. Grandville's finest book and magnum opus, an extraordinary imaginative tour de force in a highly unusual variant of the publisher's binding. 'Un nouveau monde est né; que Grandville soit loué.' (Max Ernst). Grandville's most remarkable book, an expansive flight of inspirational fantasy, and a remarkable precursor. It is clear that the influence of this work extends onward in the nineteenth and well into the twentieth centuries and beyond. A remarkable work of sui generis imaginative verve, Grandville produced t

• Publisher: H. Fournier, Libraire-Editeur.
• Year: 1844
• Binding: unknown

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