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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> THE COURT OF FLORA (Les Fleurs Anim?es) was the last of Grandville’s illustrated books published posthumously the year of the artist’s death in 1847. Of all his work this ranks as Grandville’s most graceful fantasy. The fifty-two color plates in this volume reproduce the original steel engravings of Grandville’s illustrations. Col- ored by hand Grandville’s ex- quisite compositions present a suite of beauties from the Court of Flora. This collection of floral tableaux is redolent of the sentimental spirit of French Romanticism. The art- ist’s brilliant assembly of fleurs anim?es-flowers personified’ -has all the elements of Ro- mantic ballet with its highly conventionalized attitudes magical settings and embellish- ments of costume to which at- tendant beetles crickets but- terflies and caterpillars are playfully added in variant aggressive or sycophant roles. (LL)