GRANDVILLE (J.-J.). ANOTHER WORLD. Transformations, visions, - Lot 97

GRANDVILLE (J.-J.). ANOTHER WORLD. Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, etc. Paris, Fournier, 1844. Large in-8, black perc. cardboard, cold-framed, gilt plate and mosaic on boards, smooth spine similarly decorated, gilt edges, (Publisher's binding). ORIGINAL EDITION, printed on heavy wove paper, of Grandville's most extraordinary work, written and illustrated in the surrealist vein (text by Taxile Delord). Black frontispiece and 36 colored plates, plus numerous woodcut vignettes in the text, all by Grandville. FIRST EDITION. COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING, IN PERFECT CONDITION. The plate on the front cover, inspired by the book's frontispiece, is signed Liebherre. (Inf. russ.)