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Grandville, J.J. Les fleurs animées. Text T. Delord, introd. A. Karr. Brussels, A. Delavau, 1852, 2 vols., 282; 272p., 2 handcol. lithogr. frontispieces, 50 handcol. plates by GUILL T'SAS after J.J. GRANDVILLE, 2 uncol. plates, contemp. unif. gilt hmor., 4to. - Occas. sl. foxed and yellowed; 2nd frontisp. cut sl. short in outer blank margin. Bindings sl. worn; vol. 1 frontcover loose; vol. 2 backstrip loose. = Cf. Gumuchian 2799 (1st ed., Paris 1847); cf. Carteret III, p.286; cf. Vicaire III, p.133; Brivois 147; Lipperheide Ub 15 (all Paris eds.); 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".