75/1456 Grandville, J.J. Les fleurs animées. Text T. Delord and Cte. Foelix, introd. A. Karr. Paris, P. Martinon, n.d. (±1850), 2 parts in 1 vol., (2),232,(4); 68p., handcol. engr. frontisp. and 50 plates by GILLOT after GRANDVILLE, 2 uncol. engr. plates, contemp. giltlettered hmor., 4to.

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= Cf. Gumuchian 2799 (1st ed. Paris, 1847); Vicaire III, p.133-135; Brivois 147; Carteret III, p.286 (earlier eds.); Ray, p.268-279: "By preference, however, he still turned towards the strange and wonderful images that came to him during the night, images reflected in his two final volumes of phantasies, both illustrated with colored steel engravings, Les fleurs animées and Les étoiles." Adhémar, Introd. l'Oeuvre graphique (1975), I, 7: "a large part of modern art, from expressionism to surrealism, has come from his images".