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Poem in Alexandrine quatrain and tercet, autograph signed by Swiss poet Charles Fuster, entitled "Au temps de Jeanne".
At the top of the poem, pencil annotations by an editor from Mercure de France.
The poem, 15 lines in black ink on a sheet, would appear in the "Mercure de France" review of September 1890 with a variant in the first stanza (: "la grâce de son visage" becoming in the final state "la peau de son visage")
"Aquarelle
C'est d'un grain de satin la grâce de son visage
Bleue à croire qu'un bleu reflet de lune y joue
Et le nez qui nuement fait ombre sur la joue
La grâce en a modelé tous les cartilages !
Le cold-cream obligeant fixe...
First edition, complete with all 12 issues of this luxurious and short-lived review founded and directed by Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, one of the exceedingly rare copies on japon, the only deluxe paper, with four states of the colour engravings.
Bound in half sand-coloured cloth, morocco lettering pieces, marbled paper boards, spines and wrappers preserved for each issue, a fine copy with wide margins.
Our copy indeed contains the four colour states reserved for the deluxe issue, printed on various papers, of each of the 23 photogravures in Arts & Crafts, Symbolist, Renaissance, Art Nouveau, and Classical styles, after Maxwell Armfield, Henri...
