Description

NEW EDITION, PART ORIGINAL.

ONE OF 2 EXEMPLIES ON HOLLANDE, the only large paper edition.

This edition is based on the original text of the very first collection published under a pseudonym in 1829, Life poems and thoughts of Joseph de Delorme, and has been greatly expanded for the first time by the hundred or so pages making up thea Suite by Joseph Delorme. The author states in the disclaimer: " the vein of Joseph DelormeIt's ardent, positive, real, sometimes sensual, or at least natural, above all in its inspiration and expression. Consolationsmore mystical, more ideal, more religious and moral, more elevated perhaps; but the result of this assembly in a single volume was that for some Joseph Delorme seemed too lively, and for others the Consolations too mystical.
The audience for the two collections was not quite the same. Now, more than thirty years later, when I was asked by a kind publisher to revisit Poésies de ma jeunesse, I thought it would be a good idea to create two separate series: Joseph Delormeplus a suite, forms the first; the Consolations and many pieces of the same tone will make up the second."

EDMOND DE GONCOURT'S COPY bearing his handwritten signature in red ink and his bookplate engraved in etching by Gavarni. In keeping with the works in Edmond de Goncourt's collection, the copy was not trimmed by the bookbinder and therefore retains its wide margins.

An interesting provenance, as Edmond de Goncourt often mixed feelings of admiration and hostility towards Sainte-Beuve, whom he frequently met in the dusty salons of 19th-century Paris: "Wednesday 6 May [1885], [...] we dined in this room where, in the days of old Magny, I dined with Sainte-Beuve and Gavarni, this room where such eloquent and original things were said".