LAUTRÉAMONT

Rare first edition, with the wrapper and title page dated 1874.

Half black morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands, date at foot, gilt fillet on boards, combed paper pastedowns and endpapers, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed Alix.

Printed in 1869 by Lacroix, this edition was not released for sale for fear of censorship. Only about ten copies were stitched and given to the author (five have been recorded to date). In 1874, Jean-Baptiste Rozez, another Belgian publisher-bookseller, acquired the stock and published the work with a wrapper and cancel title page dated 1874, without publisher's imprint. It was in his bo

First edition of this issue entirely devoted to the Comte de Lautréamont, one of 100 numbered copies on Bright White, after 10 Japan and 40 Holland.
Spine sunned, boards marginally soiled, handsome interior condition.
Numerous contributions by André Breton, Jean Cocteau, René Crevel, André Gide, Joseph Delteil, Paul Dermée, Edouard Dujardin, Paul Eluard, Ramon Gomez de la Cerna, Maurice Maeterlinck, Henri Michaux, Philippe Soupault, Jules Supervielle, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Paul Valéry...
As frontispiece, a portrait of Lautréamont by Odilon-Jean Périer, bibliography by Raoul Simonson.

Les Chants de Maldoror [The Songs of Maldoror]
Rare first edition, second issue with the 1874 wrapper and title page.

Binding in full red morocco, inlaid boards with a significant gauffered black Box decoration, double red morocco paste-downs, double red baize endpapers, preserved wrappers with a tiny snag at the head of the first board, all edges gilt, dust jacket with flaps in a band of half red morocco, red morocco and black cloth slipcase, superb binding signed by Georges Leroux.
Stamped ex-libris from Ch.

LAUTRéAMONT, Isidore Ducasse, Comte de
Les Chants de Maldoror [The Songs of Maldoror] Chez tous les libraires, Paris & Bruxelles 1874, 120 x 190 mm
(4 3/4 x 7 1/2 ”), full morocco gilt, custom slipcase
The rare first edition, with the cover and title dated 1874.
Superb black morocco by Semet & Plumelle, spine in six compartments with septuple blind-ruled compartments, gilt date to foot, gilt roulettes to head- and tail-pieces, 12 blind-ruled fillet frame to covers, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, large gilt dentelle frame to pastedowns, gilt fillets to edges of covers, covers and spine preserved, all edges gilt, slipcase edged