Éphraïm MIKHAËL

Gilbert Lély, "Ephraïm Mikhaël", Nos Poètes, 15 Feb. 1925, cited in Ephraïm Mikhaël, Poèmes en vers et en prose, edited by Matthew Screech, Droz, 1994

Gilbert Lély, "Ephraïm Mikhaël", Nos Poètes, 15 Feb. 1925, cited in Ephraïm Mikhaël, Poèmes en vers et en prose, edited by Matthew Screech, Droz, 1994

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on Arches vellum, deluxe copy
A handsome and rare copy.
Preface by Jean-Denis Bredin.

First edition for which no mention is made of deluxe copies.
Small lacks to margins of certain leaves, a tiny lack at head of first cover.
Created at the Théâtre Libre on December 10, 1888, Le Cor fleuri marks the young poet's theatrical debut. This "fairy play in one act" tells the amorous rapture of a fairy transformed into a woman, and was the subject of a posthumous musical adaptation by his friend the poet Ferdinand Herold to music by Fernand Halphren, student of Gabriel Fauré.

Considered by Victor Hugo as "the hope of French poetry"

First edition, one of the few copies on Holland paper.
Braid binding in half blue cloth, smooth back, marbled paper plates.
Beautiful and rare copy.
Our copy is enriched by the two-page manuscript poem entitled "Autumn", which includes some corrections by Ephraim Mikhael, and which inuagure this very rare collection of poems.