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Poëmes saturniens, édition originale
Paul VERLAINE
Paris. - Alphonse Lemerre - 1866
- Bookbinder : René AUSSOURD
- Format : In-12.
- Number of volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : Bound.
- Collation : 163 pp.
In a lined case and under a half-maroquin shirt. Full fawn morocco binding with triple and quadruple cold fillet decoration on covers drawing a large diamond shape framed with cold fillet. Spine ribbed and decorated with cold fillets. Gilt edges on witnesses, inside roulette wheel. Cover and back preserved. Binding signed René AUSSOURD. Washed copy.
The fragile cover of the book has been preserved in its entirety. It still bears the date 1867.
SOUGHT-AFTER ORIGINAL EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST COLLECTION. 491 COPIES WERE PRINTED ON WOVE PAPER, IN ADDITION TO 5 COPIES ON CHINA AND 9 ON HOLLAND.
"Verlaine was twenty-two years old when he published this first volume, composed, if we are to believe him, a long time ago. He was then - he confesses - under the influence of Baudelaire and Banville and also of Mendès and the Vignes folles de Glatigny" (Montel).
Precious copy with this AUTOGRAPHIC SENSE SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR: "To Charles Morice, Paul Verlaine". (Sent slightly faded).
A copy of the poet Charles Morice, friend of Paul Gauguin, a fervent admirer of Verlaine, who took charge of the 5-volume edition of the Complete Works at Vanier in 1911-1912.
Very nice condition.
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