Description

PARTLY FIRST EDITION, pooling collections Old and novel poems (1890) and Like a dream (1892); the latter is expanded by 5 poems: "Someone dreams of dawn and shadow", "The threshold", "Someone dreams of shadow and oblivion", "Speech in front of the night", "The tempting hand".
Copy of the current edition after 3 copies on Japon impérial and 12 copies on Hollande Van Gelder.

LÉO LARGUIER'S COPYWith his handwritten bookplate on a white endpaper and on the false title.
WITH 3 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS FROM HENRI DE RÉGNIER TO LÉO LARGUIER (2 flyleaves, one pastedown) showing the mutual admiration between the two poets:

• Letter dated July 1905, pasted on the back of the print receipt. "Thank you for sending me your Maison du Poète. I opened the door and walked through the rooms. All I found were harmonious, beautiful or melancholy stanzas and images skilfully draped in such attitudes. [...]" . With an autograph note by Léo Larguier.Letter from Henri de Régnier thanking me for my first book".
• Letter dated January 1908, one sheet folded in 2: "Thank you for sending me your poem about Jacques. [...] You have succeeded in bringing to it the emotion and eloquence of your lyrical gift, incorporating it with a true mastery of the narrative which it enlivens, unifies and enlarges, and from which it supports these fortunately chosen and harmoniously linked episodes."
• Letter dated 27 June 35, "I am pleased that my article on your twenty pictures has pleased you and that it has given me the opportunity to express very briefly and very imperfectly the high esteem in which I hold the poet that you are. I would like to thank you for sending me the cutting which attests to your faithful sympathy. It is precious to me, because we are so isolated in the times in which we live." Envelope preserved.