Paul VERLAINE

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Other contributions by P. Verlaine "Poèmes", E.A. Poe with letters, P. Adam, the memoirs of General Rossignol, R. Coolus...
Issue illustrated with 2 woodcuts by C. Maurin.

First edition.
Full soft grey mouse-colored paper boards, spine stained, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by M. Coulon "Moréas dévoilé", O. Uzanne "L'Art graphique et figuratif de Monsieur Ingres", P. Berrichon "Rimbaud chez les Parnassiens : sa liaison avec Verlaine", R. Martineau "Flaubert à Chenonceaux", R. de Gourmont, E. Herpin "Les Tiroirs de Chateaubriand", R. Schwab "Maeterlinck, le sage des jours ordinaires", P. Quillard, Saint-Alban "Le Nu au théâtre", A. Paupe, F. Mauriac "Enfance", Péladan "Philosophie de la volupté", Rachilde, P. Louis "Le Double prolétariat antique", A. Spire, E. Pilon, L. Dumur "L'Ecole du dimanche".
Copy...

First edition, presented under cream plain double wrappers, one of the copies on Holland paper from a very small print run, the number unspecified, the only deluxe copies.
Contributions by Gustave Kahn, E. La Jeunesse, Chavarche Antéorte on the events in Armenia, T. Bernard...
Issue illustrated with 2 hospital sketches by Paul Verlaine, the portrait of Paul Verlaine by Félix Vallotton and a woodcut by Tsuyouki representing Hok'Sai.
Marginal worming affecting the covers of the double wrappers, otherwise a handsome copy.
Rare.