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1927191 x 266 mm

FIRST EDITION
ONE OF THE FIRST 75 COPIES ON JAPON

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FIRST EDITION posthumous.
ONE OF THE FIRST 75 COPIES ON JAPONFollowed by 75 copies on Hollande and 500 copies on Rives vellum.

Illustrated by Maurice Ray, with 4 full-page compositions and 13 vignettes, headpieces and lamp-ends.
Mallarmé-style adaptation of the Tales and legends from ancient India by Mary Summers, with a foreword by Edmond Bonniot.

Fine binding signed by Ateliers Laurenchet.

 

 

 

Paris,L. Carteret,1927.In-4, Bound,191 x 266 mm,[2] ff. - VIII pp. - 101 pp. - [1] f. .

Red half-chagrin, spine ribbed with gilt title and date at foot, fillet over boards, gilt head. Cover preserved. Later binding signed "Ateliers Laurenchet". Corners very slightly rubbed.

Bio

Stéphane Mallarmé

Étienne Mallarmé, known as Stéphane Mallarmé (born in Paris on 18 March 1842 and died on 9 September 1898, in Valvins - commune of Vulaines-sur-Seine, Seine-et-Marne)

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