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8. GRANDVILLE. (Delord, Taxile). Un Autre Monde: Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explo- rations, peregrinations ... &c. Paris. Les Libraires Associés. 1963.
Large 8vo. (262 x 194 mm). pp. (ii), (i), (i), 295, (i). Pictorial title, printed title, leaf of cream paper with lithograph reproduction of Max Ernst’s drawing recto, 6 leaves with Pierre Restany’s introduction with two monochrome plates and biographical timeline, portrait of Grandville and facsimile of the first edition: Half-title in red with pseudo-privilège verso (also in red), leaf with frontispiece verso, printed title in red and printed text illustrated with 36 hors-texte wood-engraved plates all with additional colouring by hand and 146 wood-engravings in the text, two leaves with ‘Table’, ‘Explication’ and ‘Errata’ verso, final leaf with achevé d’imprimer and justifica- tion. Original publisher’s white cloth with printed illustration by Grandville to front and rear covers and spine with printed titles in red, green blue and yellow to front and rear covers and spine, green silk placemarker.
The facsimile of Grandville’s finest book and magnum opus with Max Ernst’s frontispiece.
From the edition limited to 3,500 stamp-numbered copies on offset blanc; 150 hors commerce exemplaires de collaborateurs were also issued.
The front cover of this facsimile is a reproduction of the rear cover of the original wrapper of the original edition, while the pic- torial title is a reproduction of the front wrapper. Max Ernst’s frontispiece is inscribed beneath: Un nouveau monde est né; que GRANVILLE [sic] soit loué - max ernst. The introduction by Pierre Restany is titled Grandville, Un Précurseur de l’Esprit Baroque Moderne and is followed by a chronology of Grandville’s short life and a portrait.
[for the original edition, see Ray 196; SR / BF 76 / 77; Carteret III, 285; Rebeyrat 287].