Description
FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF 10 COPIES ON HOLLANDE, only large paper.
Frontispiece portrait of the author by Fernand Maillaud.
An autograph letter signed by addressed to Dr Péré and its envelope mounted on tabs:
"Jan. 24, 1912
Sir, You may consider the information on Ternove to be accurate, as far as these things go. It was given to me by a fervent Gobinist, the very author of the collection about which I had wanted to write. But the rarity of books is like the virtue of women: we are all the more certain of it the less we have insisted on it..
An entire edition doesn't disappear in fifty years. But even if a few others were to be found, alongside yours, Ternove, would still be very rare. It's a curiosity, and I congratulate the bibliophile. [...]
Remy de Gourmont
A very fine copy, well bound in the period by Randeynes. founded in 1838.
RARE SHOT.
Contemporary binding by Randeynes, green half-maroquin with corners, smooth spine decorated with red and gilt mosaic frames, red title page, gilt title, gilt head, cover and spine preserved.