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ORIGINAL EDITION and FULL COLLECTION of the most important international literary magazine of the late nineteenth century.

Founded by Fernand Ortman and published in Paris, Berlin, Vienna and St Petersburg, Cosmopolis became famous thanks to the issue of 3 March 1897 containing Mallarme's pre-original, A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

In its two years of existence and 35 issues, the magazine attracted some of the greatest writers of the day (Ivan Tourgueniev, Proudhon, Moréas, George Sand, Anatole France, Pierre de Coubertin, Jean Jaurès...) and published for the first time some important texts, including An Outpost of Progress by Conrad, Joseph, The Figure in the Carpet and John Delavoy by Henry James, Slaves of the Lamp by Rudyard Kipling, The wooden star by Marcel Schwob, The wall opposite and, above all, Robert-Louis Stevenson's unfinished masterpiece, Weir of Hermiston.

A FINE COPY IN ITS PUBLISHER'S HARDBACKGerman R of the time made by the workshops of Martin Lehmann and complete with title pages and tables provided by the publisher for this meeting.

THIS COMPLETE COLLECTION IS EXTREMELY RARE.