La Bonne Chanson
Paris - Alphonse Lemerre - 1870
- Bookbinder : Jacques ANTHOINE-LEGRAIN
- Format : In-12
- Number of volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : Bound.
- Collation : 38 pp.
Black-headed morocco binding, set of nets on the plates, smooth spine, gilded inner dotted rollers. Original paper covers and spine bound in. Not trimmed. Binding signed Jacques ANTHOINE-LEGRAIN.
FIRST EDITION. Published on an author's account during the terrible siege of the Parisians in the winter of 1870-1871, its sale was delayed until the following year.
Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) composed these 21 poems under the influence of his love for Mathilde Mauté whom he married on August 11 1870. The poet kept a predilection for this "poor little collection where a whole peaceful heart was put ", as he wrote in his confessions (Works in Prose, p. 510).
Probably because of the context of its publication, Victor Hugo had these words: "It is a flower in a shell. »
Elegant binding.
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