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?