Stéphane MALLARMÉ (Auguste de VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM)
Villiers de l'Isle Adam[Villiers de l'Isle Adam]
Librairie de l'Art Indépendant|Paris 1890|16 x 24.50 cm|broché sous chemise et étui
First edition of which there were only printes 50 copies, this one of 5 numbered copies on Japon impérial, the tirage de tête.
Autograph inscription by Stéphane Mallarmé to his friend François Nys : "A monsieur Nys très sympathiquement."
This copy enriched in forntispiece with a portrait woddcut in red of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam by Marcellin Desboutin, which he inscribed for François Nys. This portrait, present in the second edition of 1892, is not present in every copy of the tirage de tête.
Two very clear dampstains, not serious, in the margins of the first and final free endpapers, two small marginal dampstains to the covers.
A good and...
Autograph inscription by Stéphane Mallarmé to his friend François Nys : "A monsieur Nys très sympathiquement."
This copy enriched in forntispiece with a portrait woddcut in red of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam by Marcellin Desboutin, which he inscribed for François Nys. This portrait, present in the second edition of 1892, is not present in every copy of the tirage de tête.
Two very clear dampstains, not serious, in the margins of the first and final free endpapers, two small marginal dampstains to the covers.
A good and...
€7,500
