The Flowers Personified; Being a Translation of Grandville’s Les Fleurs Animées

by J. J Grandville, Jean Jacques

$6,000 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition · Signed

New York: R. Martin, 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. 3 vols. in 1. 1st American edition in English . Exceptionally detailed, bespoke, contemporary full morocco, signed on the cover by Jill Smith, intricately inlaid, white silk moiré, framed endpapers, bearing a gilt inscription from a husband to his wife on their wedding day Jan. 1, 1859, probably dating the binding as 1858 , all edges gilt, light wear to covers,

• Binding: Leather

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