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GRANDVILLE (J. J.). THE ANIMATED FLOWERS. Paris, G. de Gonet, 1847. Two volumes, large in-8, publisher's black percaline, smooth spine and boards decorated with special gilt and polychrome irons after Grandville. Joints of the lower boards cracked, cuts and corners dull, bumps on the quires, freckles, missing lateral margins without affecting the text of pages III/IV of the introduction to Horticulture des dames in fine of volume II. ORIGINAL EDITION, second edition, with separate pagination for each volume, illustrated by GRANDVILLE 52 color plates (including 2 frontispieces) and 2 black plates for botany. ¶ Vicaire, III, 133 Carteret, III, 286.
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GRANDVILLE (J. J.). THE ANIMATED FLOWERS. Paris, G. de Gonet, 1847. Two volumes, large in-8, publisher's black percaline, smooth spine and boards decorated with special gilt and polychrome irons after Grandville. Joints of the lower boards cracked, cuts and corners dull, bumps on the quires, freckles, missing lateral margins without affecting the text of pages III/IV of the introduction to Horticulture des dames in fine of volume II. ORIGINAL EDITION, second edition, with separate pagination for each volume, illustrated by GRANDVILLE 52 color plates (including 2 frontispieces) and 2 black plates for botany. ¶ Vicaire, III, 133 Carteret, III, 286.
