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GRANDVILLE, J. J.
Un Autre Monde.
This work in which the author shows a totally unbridled fantasy, featuring improbable beings, animals, objects or anthropomorphic plants, or even hybrids, accompanied by unusual texts, was however poorly received by the public who judged that its author had already sunk into the madness which was to prevail a few years later, in 1847. It was not until the surrealists to see in this delirious illustration anything other than the work of a madman.
- Published
- Paris: H. Fournier, 1844.
- Plates
- 36
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Paris: H. Fournier, 1844.
- Ref
- 502
Half-title verso and title-page printed in red. With engraved frontis. Numerous woodcut vignettes and 36 full-page hand-coloured plates. Binding slightly rubbed and knocked; spine and book-square a little bit scraped; spine sunned somewhat; minimally foxed; plates minimally browned; first pages with a tiny water stain at the bottom; name 'G. Beyer' on the second flying front paper. In a contemporary cardboard slipcase (slightly rubbed and sunned). The 36 plates are in beautiful original hand colour. This 'grotesque' late work of Grandville sometimes remembers itself to Surrealism. Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations, peregrinations, excursions, stations, cosmogonies, fantasmagories, reveries, folatreries, faceties, lubies, metamorphoses, zoomorphoses, lithomorphoses, etc. Beautiful copy with a magnificent cover in full burgundy morocco with decorative designs in gilt and blind to boards and spine. Triple gilt fillet to boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Coloured plates in order: 1. A fellow with his hat off, his arms folded, an eye patch, and a grin from ear to ear! 2. Concert a la Vapeur. 3. Circus Act with a lady standing on a horse as it gallops around the ring. Ringmaster with a whip. 4. Surreal scene of a bullock with a man's face; mushrooms; frog riding a snail; half pig, half chicken creature, fish and lobsters, etc., etc. 5. Bal Masque. 6. Apocalypse du Ballet. 7. Combat de deux Raffines. 8. Les Poissons d'Avril. 9. Camail-Paletot des magasins de M ***, Pipe de la fabrique de Mme *** brevetee par S. M. la reine Pomare. 10. Le Louvre des Marionnettes. 11. Peregrinations d'une Comete. 12. Les Zephyrs Indiscrets. 13. La Poursuite. 14. Le Perchoir. 15. La Fete des Fleurs. 16. Un Autre Icare. 17. La Lune Peinte par Elle-Meme. 18. L'Eventail D'Iris. 19. Un Menuet aux Iles Marquises. 20. Les Grands et Les Petits. 21. Les Ombres Francaises. 22. Les Lucreces. 23. Mlle Leucothoe. -- Role de Phedre. 24. Anges et Demons. 25. Bazar Matrimonial. 26. Ecole Theatrale. Les Grands-Maitres de la scene. 27. Les Grands Hommes aux Champs-Elysees. 28. La Barque a Caron. 29. Les Noces du Puff et de la Reclame. 30. La Bataille des Cartes. 31. Le Prince Philanthrope. 32. Systeme de Fourier. 33. La Concurrence. 34. La Mode. 35. Le Jour de l'An. 36. La Conservation des Races.
