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VERLAINE.
[Set of 3 illustrated volumes].
LOT of 3 fine bound editions.
In large 8vo format.
-GUIGNEBAULT. VERLAINE.
La Bonne Chanson.
Paris, Librairie Albert Messein, 1914.
96 pp., contemporary fawn sheepskin, spine with three raised bands, gilt title, allegorical figure on the covers, gilt head, cover and spine preserved (spine faded, scuffs).
Illustrations enhanced with watercolour.
Copy no. 84. One of 500 printed on custom-sized vellum.
-BONFILS. VERLAINE.
Fêtes galantes.
Paris, Librairie Albert Messein, 1915.
104 pp. Contemporary black half-basane bound in morocco, spine with 5 raised bands, title, author’s name and date gilt, cover and spine preserved (spine faded, scuff marks on the raised bands).
Illustrations printed in blue and enhanced with watercolour.
Copy no. 393. One of 500 printed on vellum in the original format.
-PICART LE DOUX. VERLAINE.
Romances sans paroles.
Paris, Librairie Albert Messein, 1920.
117 pp. Contemporary black half-basane with morocco trim, spine with 5 raised bands, title, author and date gilt; cover and spine preserved (spine faded and rubbed, with minor scuffs).
Illustrations printed in blue and enhanced with watercolour.
Copy no. 393. One of 500 printed on laid vellum.
Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné.
Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller with a passion for bookbinding, a flautist and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, moved in both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and Academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were mainly staged in the Paris region.
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