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Les fleurs animées
Title
Les fleurs animées / par J.J. Grandville ; introductions par Alph. Karr, texte par Taxile Delord.
Published
Paris : Gabriel de Gonet, éditeur, 1847 (Paris : Typographie de Lacour et cie)
Physical Description
2 v. (364, iv, 132 p., [52] leaves of plates) : 52 ill. (some col.), music ; 28 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN 2011 +240 pties 1-2: Bound in 3/4 green morocco and housed in burgandy leather and tan cloth clamshell boxes (not original). Bookplate: Ex. bibliothéca Ct. J.F. Chazel [?]. Bookplate: Peter & Kathleen Wick. From the library of Peter & Kathleen Wick. Ptie 1: original wrappers and spine for ptie 1, cream-colored with pink illustrations, and the original front and back yellow wrappers for Livraisons [in ms.] 78, 79, and 80 bound in at end of volume. Ptie 2: original wrappers and spine for ptie 2, cream-colored with pink illustrations, along with the original front and back yellow wrappers for Livraisons [in ms.] 11-12, and the "Avis au relieur" that describes where in the text the ill. are to be bound (several page numbers of which have been corrected in unidentified ms.) bound in at end of volume.
Notes
Added t.p.'s engraved and illustrated in colors.
In the first "tirage," issued in 1847, the two volumes are paged continuously; in the second "tirage", also issued in 1847, the volumes are paged separately. In the second issue the date 1847 is sometimes missing. Cf. Wick, P.A. Court of Flora, footnotes.
First "tirage," with the two volumes paginated continuously.
Additional contents in ptie 2: "Erratum" (unsigned), p. [361]-364; "Botanique des dames, introduction par Alph. Karr," first p. [I]-IV; "Botanique moderne des dames," p. [1]-[63]; "Horticulture des dames, introduction par Alph. Karr," second p. [I]-IV; "Culture des fleurs, horticulture des dames," signed Cte Fœlix, p. [65]-130.
Format
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Language
French
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Vicaire, G. Manuel de l'amateur de livres du XIXe siècle, 1801-1893, III, 133-134.
Brivois, J. Ouvrages illustrés du 19. s., p. 147-150
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