Stéphane MALLARMÉ, Joris-Karl HUYSMANS
Manuscript poems of Stéphane Mallarmé
s. n.|No Location [1887 ?]|20 x 32 cm|1 portrait-frontispice, 1 titre à l'encre, 83 p. manuscrites, qq. feuillets vierges
Exceptional illuminated manuscript of 35 poems by Stéphane Mallarmé, probably copied by Joris-Karl Huysmans on watermarked Hollande laid paper, after pre-first editions of the poems published in journals. Most of the poems are preceded by a separate title-page noting the source from which it is taken.
The manuscript includes a fine charcoal portrait of Mallarmé as a frontispiece by Charles Tichon, after a photographic portrait by Van Bosch. The portrait was published in the Mallarmé issue of Empreintes (Bruxel
€25,000