Les fleurs animées / par J.J. Grandville, introductions par Alph. Karr, texte par Taxile Delord. Première[-Deuxième] partie.
Jean-Jacques Grandville (Nancy 1803 - Vanves 1847)
Category
Books
Date
1847
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3112748
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ; 4to. Coloured plates. Bookseller's pencil notes on front pastedown of v. 1: "2 vols oa4/4/-" and [in a different hand]: "fine copy 2 vols … 15-0" [price partially obscured by bookplate]. Ephemera: typescript catalogue card loosely inserted in v. 1; length of cream ribbon loosely inserted in v. 2. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter blue stained calf, blue embossed paper over boards; sewn onto five recessed cords; four false bands; gilt-tooled spines, lettered direct: Les fleurs animées Grandville / 1[-2]'.
Makers and roles
Jean-Jacques Grandville (Nancy 1803 - Vanves 1847), artist Taxile Delord (1815 - 1877), author Jean-Baptiste-Alphonse Karr (1808-1890), author Charles Geoffroy (1819 - 1882), engraver (printmaker)