Un Autre Monde. Transformations, visions, incarnations...et autres choses..., 1844

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Medium

bound volume with 203 wood engravings, including 1 cover illustration (spread over upper and lower covers and spine), 2 frontispieces, 139 wood-engraved vignettes, 23 full-page vignettes and 38 hand-colored wood engravings, of which 16 are in duplicate)

Dimensions

sheet: 26.7 x 18.8 cm (10 1/2 x 7 3/8 in.)
book: 27.8 x 20.5 x 4.5 cm (10 15/16 x 8 1/16 x 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann

Accession Number

2008.110.1

Artists / Makers

Jean-Ignace-Isidore Grandville (artist) French, 1803 - 1847

Taxile Delord (author) French, 1815 - 1877

H. Fournier (publisher) French, 19th century

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Inscription

inside back cover upper right in graphite by later hand: BORX_W / FDF / 116388; inside back cover center: Grandville. / with 2 frontis + 36 plates, / of which 16 are in duplicate. / C&P ML(?)

Provenance

(Ursus Rare Books, Ltd., New York); Mr. and Mrs. Ladislaus Von Hoffmann, Washington, DC, 2004; gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

von Hoffmann, Ladislaus, Mr.

Bibliography

1982: Ray, Gordon N. The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 1700 to 1914. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library; and Ithica, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982, 2: 196.

2003: Laird, Michael. Ursus Rare Books. New York, 2003: no. 44.