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68 1857 Grandville J J 68 1857 Grandville J J 68/1857 Grandville, J.J. Les fleurs animées. Text J. Delord, introd. A. Karr. Paris, G. de Gonet, 1847, 2 vols., 262; (4),236p., 2 diff. handcol. woodengr. frontisp., 52 (of which 50 handcol.) steelengr. plates by GEOFFROY after J.J. GRANDVILLE, orig. unif. gilt blindst. cl., a.e.g., 4to. - Some foxing, mainly marginal (both frontisp. sl. worse). Bindings dam. along extremities but joints holding. = Vicaire III, p.133; Carteret III, p.286; Sander 215; Brivois 147; Gumuchian 2799; Ray, p.268-279: "By preference, however, he still turned towards the strange and wonderful images that came to him during the night, images reflected in his two final volumes of phantasies, both illustrated with colored steel engravings, Les fleurs animées and Les étoiles." Adhémar, Introd. l'Oeuvre graphique (1975), I, 7: "a large part of modern art, from expressionism to surrealism, has come from his images".