Les fleurs animées
By: par J.J. Grandville ; introductions par Alph. Karr ; texte par Taxile Delord
Contributors: Delord, Taxile, 1815-1877; Karr, Alphonse, 1808-1890; Raban, 1795-1870; Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection; Geoffroy, Charles Michel, 1819-1882
Publisher: Gabriel de Gonet
Published: 1847
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Plants; Folklore; Plants in art; Botany; Fairies; Gardening; Flowers in art
Other titles: Horticulture des dames; Botanique des dames; Botanique moderne des dames.; Botanique des dames.; Culture des fleurs, horticulture des dames.; Horticulture des dames.
Notes: Fifty of the 52 steel-engraved plates are hand-colored at publisher's direction. Many plates signed "Grandville del. Ch. Geoffroy sc. G. de Gonet, editeur" but some also include "Imp. Delamain et Sarazin rue Gitle-Coeur 8 Paris." Some plates with illustration surrounded by double fillet and/or with floral arch as upper border. Plates accompanied by tissue guards.

Botanique moderne des dames: v. 2, p. [105]-166; Culture des fleurs, horticulture des dames: v. 2, p. [169]-234 (signed: Cte. Foelix, pseud. of L.F. Raban). Both included on divisional title (v. 2, p. [103]): Les fleurs animées, botanique et horticulture des dames par Le Cte Foelix. "Botanique des dames, introduction par Alph. Karr" (v. 2, first [I]-IV pages)and "Horticulture des dames, introduction par Alph. Karr" (v.2, second [I]-IV pages) immediately follow divisional title.

cf. BN 63:598

cf. NUC pre-l956, 210:207

Vicaire, G. Livres du 19. s., III, 133-134

Brivois, J. Ouvrages illustrés du 19. s., p. 147-150