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Arthur RIMBAUD

Une saison en enfer

Alliance typographique (M.J. Poot & Cie), Bruxelles 1873, 12,5x18,5cm, relié sous étui.

[A Season in Hell]
Alliance typographique (M. J. Poot & C^ie) Bruxelles 1873 | 12,5 x 18,5 cm | full morocco and custom slipcase

First edition published in small num­bers at the author's expense.
Binding in full black morocco elaborate­ly decorated in blind, original wrappers preserved, half black morocco slipcase, outstanding binding signed Semet & Plumelle.
This very scarce first edition is a ma­jor collector's piece on several counts: it remains the only work published by Rimbaud himself, then a young un­known 19-year-old poet. He eventual­ly never honored his debt towards the printer. The latter therefore kept almost the entire print, subsequently forgotten in the workshop (Arthur Rimbaud ob­tained only a dozen copies offered
to his friends). The stock was found in 1901 by a bibliophile who retrieved the well-preserved 425 copies and de­stroyed the rest damaged by humidity.
The curious composition of the work is also a surprising peculiarity of this pre­cious edition: without a title page nor endpapers (the text begins ex abrupto after the cover and finishes the same way), the seventeen blank pages insert­ed far and wide in the book, as well as the misprints and spelling errors pep­pered through the text are also curiosi­ties subjected to scholarly research.
Sought-after and collected very early on by bibliophiles, copies of this myth­ical edition were bound by the greatest French binders namely Pierre Lucien Martin, Semet & Plumelle, Paul Bonet or Georges Leroux.
A very beautiful copy set in an out­standing blind tooled full morocco binding by Semet & Plumelle.

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