Author: GRANDVILLE, J.J.
Title: Petites Misères de la Vie Humaine
Description: Paris: Garnier Frères, 1848. The Cipher of a New Relation Between Humans and Things" GRANDVILLE, J.J. Petites Misères de la Vie Humaine. Texte par Old Nick. Nouvelle Édition. Paris: Garnier Frères, [1848]. Nouvelle èdition (First published by Henri Fournier in 1843). Large octavo ( 10 5/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 269 x 175 mm.). [2], [2, portrait frontispiece], [2, Vignette title printed in black, red and brown], iii, [iv, blank], [1]-520 pp. Fifty-three fine engraved plates (including the portrait frontispiece of Grandville). Numerous illustrations and cul-de-lampes throughout the text. Half-title and title-page with foxing, sporadic light mainly marginal foxing to plates and text. Publisher's quarter green morocco over green pebble- cloth boards, spine with four shallow raised bands, eleborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, white watered silk-paper endleaves, all edges gilt. Some old tape marks on endpapers from a long ago removed protective covering. A very nice copy of this, the most complete edition with three additional plates that are not in the first edition of 1843. This edition is notoriously difficult to date as Garnier Frères did a number of "nouvelle" editions. On the front paste-down there is an old small tipped-on catalog description from a French dealer dating the book 1848 and on the printer's slug on the last page it reads "Paris - J. Clave, imprimeur, 7 , rue Saint-Benoit. - [1448]". Patently absurd, but it is conceivable that the printer made an error and it should read 1848. "In the final decade of his life, Grandville gave considerable attention to what Marx would soon call “the enigmatical character of the product of labor.” Grandville’s 1843 illustrations for Petites misères de la vie humaine are described by Giorgio Agamben in Stanzas: Word and Image in Western Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1993): “In a leaky faucet that cannot be turned off, in an umbrella that reverses itself, in a boot that can be neither completely put on nor taken off and remains tenaciously stuck on the foot . the prophetic glance of Grandville discovers . the cipher of a new relation between humans and things. The degeneration implicit in the transformation of the artisanal object into the mass-produced article is constantly manifest to modern man in the loss of his own self-possession with respect to things.” (Artforum). Carteret, III, p. 471: 'Charmant illustration, une des plus spirituelles de Grandville'. .
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Title: Petites Misères de la Vie Humaine
Description: Paris: Garnier Frères, 1848. The Cipher of a New Relation Between Humans and Things" GRANDVILLE, J.J. Petites Misères de la Vie Humaine. Texte par Old Nick. Nouvelle Édition. Paris: Garnier Frères, [1848]. Nouvelle èdition (First published by Henri Fournier in 1843). Large octavo ( 10 5/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 269 x 175 mm.). [2], [2, portrait frontispiece], [2, Vignette title printed in black, red and brown], iii, [iv, blank], [1]-520 pp. Fifty-three fine engraved plates (including the portrait frontispiece of Grandville). Numerous illustrations and cul-de-lampes throughout the text. Half-title and title-page with foxing, sporadic light mainly marginal foxing to plates and text. Publisher's quarter green morocco over green pebble- cloth boards, spine with four shallow raised bands, eleborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, white watered silk-paper endleaves, all edges gilt. Some old tape marks on endpapers from a long ago removed protective covering. A very nice copy of this, the most complete edition with three additional plates that are not in the first edition of 1843. This edition is notoriously difficult to date as Garnier Frères did a number of "nouvelle" editions. On the front paste-down there is an old small tipped-on catalog description from a French dealer dating the book 1848 and on the printer's slug on the last page it reads "Paris - J. Clave, imprimeur, 7 , rue Saint-Benoit. - [1448]". Patently absurd, but it is conceivable that the printer made an error and it should read 1848. "In the final decade of his life, Grandville gave considerable attention to what Marx would soon call “the enigmatical character of the product of labor.” Grandville’s 1843 illustrations for Petites misères de la vie humaine are described by Giorgio Agamben in Stanzas: Word and Image in Western Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1993): “In a leaky faucet that cannot be turned off, in an umbrella that reverses itself, in a boot that can be neither completely put on nor taken off and remains tenaciously stuck on the foot . the prophetic glance of Grandville discovers . the cipher of a new relation between humans and things. The degeneration implicit in the transformation of the artisanal object into the mass-produced article is constantly manifest to modern man in the loss of his own self-possession with respect to things.” (Artforum). Carteret, III, p. 471: 'Charmant illustration, une des plus spirituelles de Grandville'. .
Keywords: Books in French Caricatures
Price: US$ 650.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 06031
- Book number: 06031
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