Lille (Nord)

Very rare first edition, printed in only 80 copies (According to CCFr, copies are held only at the BnF and in Lille).

This edition was printed on August 27, 1867, in the presence of Emperor Napoleon III, during his visit to northern France with Empress Eugénie from August 26 to 30, 1867.

Publisher’s binding in full green grained cloth, flat spine decorated with blind fillets, panels framed with blind fillets, slightly bumped corners, pink edges.

Minor foxing mainly affecting the endpapers; a handsome copy.

On a blank endpaper, an autograph inscription signed by Léonard-Jean-Baptiste Danel (1818–1905), nephew and successor of Louis Danel since 1843, addressed to Auguste Ohnet, likely the paternal uncle of the novelist Georges Ohnet (1848–1918), in which case he lived from 1808 to 1882.

Laid in: a chromolithographed broadside (39 x 29 cm) presenting a copy to the Empress ("Offert à S.M. l'Impératrice Eugénie par le personnel de l'imprimerie Danel à Lille").

First edition.
Fifth complete year.
Full olive green cloth binding, smooth spine lightly browned decorated with blind fillets, gilt title and date, corners very lightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Review decorated with black and white illustrations, vignettes and tailpieces.
Principal contributors: Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Renée Vivien, Léon Bocquet, Paul Fort, René Ghil, Gustave Kahn, Albert Mockel, Charles Morice, Léon de Rosny, Albert Samain, Emile Verhaeren, Louis Pergaud, among others.
The final issue, number 50, is devoted to a questionnaire containing 102 responses from poets and writers to the following questions:
If to complete the Goncourt Academy and following its model, a well-endowed man were to establish an independent academy of poets:
1-Who would be, in your opinion, the ten new immortals to elect? (Women are admitted as well as French poets from Belgium.)
2-To which volume of verse published this year would you award the prize?
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Complete fifth year, from No. 41 of January-February 1904 to No. 50 of November-December 1904. Continuous pagination.
Bradel binding in red half-cloth with corners, smooth spine decorated with fleuron and gilt fillets, gilt title.
Review illustrated with black and white illustrations, vignettes and tailpieces.
Our copy additionally contains a manuscript letter from Léon Bocquet, director of the review, dated 1904.
Spine and corners very lightly rubbed, otherwise fine copy, with fresh and pleasant interior.
Principal contributors: Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Renée Vivien, Léon Bocquet, Paul Fort, René Ghil, Gustave Kahn, Albert Mockel, Charles Morice, Léon de Rosny, Albert Samain, Emile Verhaeren, Louis Pergaud, among others.
No. 50, the only one whose cover has been preserved, is devoted to a questionnaire containing 102 responses from poets and writers to the following questions:
If, to complete the Goncourt academy and following its model, a well-funded man were to establish an independent academy of poets:
1-Who would be, in your opinion, the ten new immortals to be elected? (Women are admitted as well as French poets from Belgium.)
2-To which volume of verse published this year would you award the prize?

First edition.
Contributions by L. Pergaud with "Poèmes", R. Allard, H. Martineau...
A good copy.

First edition. 102 responses from poets and writers to the following questions: If to complete the Goncourt Academy and following its model, a well-endowed man were to establish an independent academy of poets: 1-Who would be, in your opinion, the ten new immortals to elect? (Women are admitted as well as French poets from Belgium.) 2-To which volume of verse published this year would you award the prize?