Les Fleurs Animees

1851. GRANDVILLE, J.J. Les Fleurs Animées. Introduction by Alphonse Karr. Text by Taxile Delord. 2 volumes. 198; 176 pp. Illustrated with 2 hand-coloured lithographic frontispieces plus 50 hand-coloured lithographs. 12mo., 165 x 110 mm, bound in publisher's hand-coloured illustrated printed boards, in a new half morocco folding box.. Bruxelles: C.W. Froment, 1851. A reduced format Belgian edition of this classic. In the fifty hand-coloured plates Grandville portrays a flower or plant metamorphosized into a lady clad in the petals or leaves particular to that flower or plant. Further, his flower turned human exhibits the human personality traits which Grandville perceives as characteristic of the species he is illustrating. Renonciat, Grandville p. 287. Carteret III, 286. Ray 198. Plesch 241. Sello, Grandville: Das Gesamte Werk II, 1500-1508.