Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Karr, Alphonse, 1808-1890.
2. Delord, Taxile, 1815-1877.
3. Raban, 1795-1870.
4. Geoffroy, Charles Michel, 1819-1882.

Description

1. 2 v. (364, iv, 132 p., [52] leaves of plates]) : ill (chiefly col.); 28 cm.

Subject

1. Botany > Humor
2. Flowers > Pictorial works
3. Smoking in art
4. Tobacco > Humor

Call number

1. Arents S 1115

Note

1. "Une malice de la fée aux fleurs" (facetious history and fable of tobacco): p. [61]-66 and plate facing p. 66 (1st group). "Sensitive" (plate facing p. 271) shows beetle smoking. "Erratum" (plate facing p. 362) shows tobacco personified. "Tabac ... De grace donc, mesdames, point de tabac, même en fleur": p. 127 (3d group).
2. Added wood-engraved title pages, illustrated in colors.
3. "Botanique des dames" and "Horticulture des dames": iv, 132 p. at end of vol. 2, signed: Cte. Fœlix (i.e. L.F. Raban).
4. Plates engraved on steel by C.M. Geoffroy after Grandville.
5. Originally issued in 83 parts.

Indexed in (note)

1. Vicaire, G. Livres du 19. s.
2. Carteret, L. Trésor, 1801-1875

Binding (note)

1. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, with gilt design after motifs in the book, signed: J.J. Grandville, Peau.

Author

1. Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847.

Title

1. Les fleurs animées / par J.J. Grandville ; introductions par Alph. Karr, texte par Taxile Delord.

Imprint

1. Paris : G. de Gonet, 1847.

Indexed in:

1. Vicaire, G. Livres du 19. s., III, col. 133-134
2. Carteret, L. Trésor, 1801-1875 III, p. 286

Binding

1. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, with gilt design after motifs in the book, signed: J.J. Grandville, Peau.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Karr, Alphonse, 1808-1890.
2. Delord, Taxile, 1815-1877.
3. Raban, 1795-1870.
4. Geoffroy, Charles Michel, 1819-1882. Engraver

Research call number

1. Arents S 1115