High reserve.
Heavily edited, with numerous additions and corrections. Many variations from published texts.
With a wrapper annotated with numbers, including page counts.
The manuscript of Les poèmes d'Edgar Poe dates to 1870-1875. The manuscript of Notes sur le langage dates to circa 1869. See notes to the texts in Oeuvres complètes for dating.
The Poèmes and Scolies are written in black ink. The Notes sur le langage are primarily in pencil, with some pages in black or blue ink.
Each poem in the manuscripts of Les poèmes d'Edgar Poe is separately paginated in black ink. Each section in the Scolies is separately paginated in blue pencil.
The manuscript of Les poèmes d'Edgar Poe is followed by two sheets containing quotations from Baudelaire about Poe, crossed out in blue pencil.
The first section of the Scolies ("Portrait et signature") contains a paragraph not included in the published edition regarding a portrait of Poe received by Mallarmé from Sarah Helen Whitman that he had originally intended to reproduce alongside the poet's signature.
Acquired with a copy of Diptyque II (PML 198999), in which part of Mallarmé's Notes sur le langage was published.
Originally in a brown leather clamshell box, containing the bookplate of Susan Jaffe Tane, housed in a slipcase. Slipcase and box removed and retained, 2023.
Contains Mallarmé's translation of the poems of Edgar Allan Poe (consisting of the Poems and the Scolies) and, on the verso of the poems, his Notes sur le langage.