Cartonnages Romantics. Grandville. Metamorphoses du Jour .
Hello,
It is unnecessary that the multiplicity and confusion of iron gilt buckram or grief for asking questions.
Chance that I have before me two copies of the same work of the Romantic period, the reissue in 1836 at Aubert's Metamorphoses du Jour, the famous book originally appeared in Grandville Bulla in 1829. This
as described by the biographers of volumes In-4 ° oblong each containing the 71 lithographic plates, a watercolor of time, the other black, paper covers illustrated publisher.
But both lithographed covers are different.
One, the black edition is entitled: Metamorphosis Day or Men in heads Beasts by JJ Grandville. * Popular Edition. In Aubert, editor, Galerie Vero-Dodat. Paris.
This title within a rectangular frame surrounded by vines and scrolls, flanked by two monkeys to mirrors and topped with a thumbnail.
The other colors in the edition bears the following title: The Metamorphosis of the Day by
Grandville * Aubert et Cie, Place de la Bourse 29.
This title within a rectangular frame surrounded by various characters with heads of animals in a setting of ancient ruins. It distinguishes the pediment, two monkeys given the Arts and Sciences on the sides two figures standing in the bottom two pairs flanking a kind of grotesque.
Two different covers on the same issue? why? or two different editions?
change of address of the publisher is a first track. When Aubert to you it moved the gallery to go Vero Dodat Place de la Bourse? Circa 1838? Before? If one reads
carefully the long record of Vicar (IV, 782) per copy in black would be 1836 and it is said that in a catalog after that date again Aubert announced the publication of this work of Grandville with hardback copies in color.
I do not have enough documents on the precise date of installation d'Aubert on the Exchange. One of my readers did he answer? If indeed there is a period of one year or more between these two works may reasonably be considered that this is not just a reprint and that there is a little-known edition not cited by the bibliographers. While currently we described four: 1829, 1836, 1854 and 1869, we could add a fifth.
"in two measures of dates, there is a measure of stones" Talmud.
Dive in your documentation. To read you.
good weekend.
On Monday 17, I realize that my good friend Rhémus indicated by a comment I have only just read that Aubert was transported to the Exchange Place in 1841. Thank you. So actually we do have two separate editions; One in 1836 and one after 1841. Five editions in total, not four. Whenever I would tell you how by Also, I found two perfectly unknown editions of Flowers Animated Grandville, I would wake the dead in Carteret and Vicar for information.
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