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No one really knows where to place FFTA because it's version of Ivalice isn't necessarily the Ivalice of the rest of the series but some kind of fantasy version that took elements of the real Ivalice and the St. Ivalice to create a pseudo-world. Yet we know it actually happened because the book Luso to reach the real Ivalice is the same book Mewt used to create his dream Ivalice.
Not necessarily. Mewt was implied to have use the Gran Grimoire, while Luso used the Grimoire of the Rift. This would be why Mewt shaped a world, why Luso was merely transported to a different world, because he wasn't using the same Grimoire, and the power of the two is different.
Except the Gran Grimoire is kind of a catch all term for a reality warping tome, so the Grimoire of the Rift itself could be the same Grimoire that Mewt used to change the world. It is kind of suspicious that Luso is able to get to Ivalice by finding a strange book in a library run by a guy who had a similar run in with a magic book. It is very likely that Mewt's Gran Grimoire and the Grimoire of the Rift could be the same book just used differently based on the users desire. It just seems kind of convenient that Mewt could find two magical books in his lifetime, whereas the idea it is the same book makes a bit more sense. That is my thought at least.

Hell in Vagrant Story the Gran Grimoire isn't even a book. Course none of this is helped by all three games where the Gran Grimoire pops up are all during different stages of Ivalice concept still being ironed out by the development team and being developed by different people. Vagrant Story wasn't really part of Ivalice until after the fact, Advance was kind of meant to be a stand alone title and by TA2's time, the development team decided to try to stitch all the games together, which is why the timeline is kind of funky.

In my opinion, I feel Matsuno had intended FFXII to be a reboot of the Ivalice world as opposed to being directly connected to FFTactics and FFTA. He considered Vagrant Story to be a stand alone game and only later warmed up to the idea of it being a distant sequel to FFTactics. The very nature of FFTA put that game into it's own spin-off category but then FFTA2 decided to link it to the main series, yet that game was developed without Matsuno's involvement.