Un Autre Monde. Transformations, Visions, Incarnations, Ascensions, Locomotions, Explorations, Peregrinations, Excursions, Stations, Cosmogpnies, Fantasmagories, Reveries, Folatreries, Faceties, Lubies, Metamorphoses, Zoomorphoses, Lithomorphoses, Metempsycoses, Apotheoses, et Autres Choses.
Printed in France. H. Fournier. 1844. First edition. Leather and cloth over boards. Hardcover 3/4 leather (red) over cloth (navy) over boards. 4to. [6] + 295 +[1] pp. Copiously illustrated in b/w and full colour with stunning lithograph drawings by French artist Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard (under the pseudonym Grandville). French language text. Sympathetically rebound. Six compartment spine with five ribs. Half title and 5 fleurs-de-lis ornaments stamped in gilt on spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. The text block is clean with some age browning to the edges and some foxing (mostly in the front and back matter). All images clear and undamaged. Binding is strong and square. Boards have minor wear to the head and foot. Overall a wonderful copy of a book that would influence the Surrealist movement and modern animation. Very good. Item #67136
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