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GRANDVILLE, J.J. Les fleurs animées. Text A. Karr, T. Delord & Cte. Foelix. Nouv. ed. avec planches très soigneusement retouchées p. M. Maubert. Par., Garnier frères, 1867. 2 vols. (4), 339, (5); (4), 390, (2) pp. W. 2 handcold. engr. front., 50 handcold. & partly gommé engr. plates by Ch. Geoffroy after Grandville, 2 plain engr. plates, num. text-ill. & musical scores. Lge-8°. Cont. brown h. mor. w. raised bands, dec. gilt backs. (Upper hinge vol. 1 partly broken, margins faintly stained in places).
.This brilliant 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. - Sander, 215 (1st ed.); Vicaire III, 133-135; Carteret III, 286 (earlier eds.).€ 180
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