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GRANDVILLE (1803-1847) – [Petit théatre animal. Probably Paris: c. 1840.]
Duodecimo (85 x 106 mm). 12 hand-coloured engravings, with bilingual engraved captions in French and broken English. (Repair to the inside margin reaching into four plates, light marginal soiling.) Contemporary red boards, covers with a gilt border, the upper cover with ‘H. Monnier’ in gilt (rebacked, extremities rubbed); custom red morocco backed slipcase and cloth chemise. Provenance: J. B. Rund (bookplate, pencilled annotations on the free endpaper).
A VERY RARE SUITE OF EXPLICIT ENGRAVINGS BY ONE OF THE MOST DISTINCTIVE ILLUSTRATORS OF HIS AGE. Apparently not in the Bibliothèque nationale de France; WorldCat locates no copy in any public institution; AE and ABPC record no copy offered at auction. Grandville’s work as a satirist and book illustrator mixes realism and fantasy, and in the field of illustration ‘had a profound effect; not only did he extend its repertory of subjects to include dream-like, imaginary scenes, but he also gave precedence to image over text, which became no more than an accessory or accompaniment’; ‘the writers André Breton and Georges Bataille saw him as a prophetic artist, and, although he shares something with the nonsense worlds of his contemporaries Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, he really belongs to a later, post-Freudian age’ (Grove). Not in Dutel; not in Gay-Lemmonyer.
Duodecimo (85 x 106 mm). 12 hand-coloured engravings, with bilingual engraved captions in French and broken English. (Repair to the inside margin reaching into four plates, light marginal soiling.) Contemporary red boards, covers with a gilt border, the upper cover with ‘H. Monnier’ in gilt (rebacked, extremities rubbed); custom red morocco backed slipcase and cloth chemise. Provenance: J. B. Rund (bookplate, pencilled annotations on the free endpaper).
A VERY RARE SUITE OF EXPLICIT ENGRAVINGS BY ONE OF THE MOST DISTINCTIVE ILLUSTRATORS OF HIS AGE. Apparently not in the Bibliothèque nationale de France; WorldCat locates no copy in any public institution; AE and ABPC record no copy offered at auction. Grandville’s work as a satirist and book illustrator mixes realism and fantasy, and in the field of illustration ‘had a profound effect; not only did he extend its repertory of subjects to include dream-like, imaginary scenes, but he also gave precedence to image over text, which became no more than an accessory or accompaniment’; ‘the writers André Breton and Georges Bataille saw him as a prophetic artist, and, although he shares something with the nonsense worlds of his contemporaries Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, he really belongs to a later, post-Freudian age’ (Grove). Not in Dutel; not in Gay-Lemmonyer.
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