Les fleurs animées. J.J Grandville

Texte par Alphonse Karr, Taxile Delord & Le Comte Foelix

Nouvelle édition avec planches très soigneusement retouchées par la gravure et le coloris par Maubert

Complet en 2 vols, in4, 38x18, reliés demi cuir, frottements légers, très bel état intérieur, bien complet de ses 50 planches coloriées sous serpentes, 339, 321pp..

Paris, Garnier, 1867

with 2 handcoloured lithographed frontispieces, 50 handcoloured lithographed plates and 2 plain lithographed plates. Contemporary green half calf, richly gilt spines, gilt edges. The first edition was published in 1847. "Of all his work, this is his most graceful fantasy: the fifty-two plates of court beauties in floral haute couture present a suite of fashionable tableaux redolent of the sentimental spirit of French Romanticism, at the end of the July Monarchy and in the predawn of the Second Empire. This briljant assembly of the Court of Flora has all the elements of Romantic ballet with its highly conventionalized poses, fanciful costumes, and magical settings. To these Grandville has playfully added attendant beetles, crickets, butterflies, moths, and caterpillars, those diminutive inhabitants of the garden, in variant agressive or sycophant roles" (Wick, P.A. The Court of Flora