Accession number
PML 196237
Creator
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898.
Published
Bruxelles : Edmond Deman, 1899.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2016.
Notes
Library's copy comprises 136 loose printed pages of Deman's 1899 edition and 24 leaves in manuscript, dating from approximately 1912, compiled to serve as the "manuscript" for the 1913 edition of Mallarmé's Poésies, published by Éditions de la Nouvelle revue française.
Lacking the printed title page, frontispiece, colophon, and various pages of text; there are some variations in the ordering of the poems in this unbound copy.
Printed in red and black.
Manuscript leaves of poems have been inserted for: "Une négresse par le démon secouée..."; "Sonnet (Sur les bois oubliés)"; "Cantique de Saint Jean" (2 leaves); "Dame, sans trop d'ardeur..."; "O si chère de loin..."; "Chansons bas" III -VIII (3 leaves); "Rondels" (2 leaves); "Toute l'âme résumée"; as well as 6 leaves for the Bibliography.
The following poems are ostensibly in Geneviève Mallarmé-Bonniot's hand: "Sonnet (Sur les bois oubliés)," "Cantique de Saint Jean," "O si chère de loin...," and "Chansons bas" III -VIII; the six leaves of bibliographical entries also match her hand.
Two words in Geneviève's manuscript of "Sonnet" are transposed or differ in capitalization from the version eventually published in 1913.
Additional inserted manuscript leaves comprise a title page (lacking an imprint) and section title pages for "Hérodiade," "L'après-midi d'un faune," and "Feuillets d'Album."
One of the added poems, "Petit Air (guerrier)," consists of a news clipping mounted to a leaf, presumably a copy of the poem's original publication in L'Épreuve, Journal-album d'art (Nov. 1894).
Lacking the printed title page, frontispiece, colophon, and various pages of text; there are some variations in the ordering of the poems in this unbound copy.
Printed in red and black.
Manuscript leaves of poems have been inserted for: "Une négresse par le démon secouée..."; "Sonnet (Sur les bois oubliés)"; "Cantique de Saint Jean" (2 leaves); "Dame, sans trop d'ardeur..."; "O si chère de loin..."; "Chansons bas" III -VIII (3 leaves); "Rondels" (2 leaves); "Toute l'âme résumée"; as well as 6 leaves for the Bibliography.
The following poems are ostensibly in Geneviève Mallarmé-Bonniot's hand: "Sonnet (Sur les bois oubliés)," "Cantique de Saint Jean," "O si chère de loin...," and "Chansons bas" III -VIII; the six leaves of bibliographical entries also match her hand.
Two words in Geneviève's manuscript of "Sonnet" are transposed or differ in capitalization from the version eventually published in 1913.
Additional inserted manuscript leaves comprise a title page (lacking an imprint) and section title pages for "Hérodiade," "L'après-midi d'un faune," and "Feuillets d'Album."
One of the added poems, "Petit Air (guerrier)," consists of a news clipping mounted to a leaf, presumably a copy of the poem's original publication in L'Épreuve, Journal-album d'art (Nov. 1894).
Description
136 pages, 24 leaves ; 25 x 16.5 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Brief annotations in pencil and ink ostensibly by Edmond Bonniot and occasionally the printer ca. 1912 concerning the number of stanzae on each page, page breaks, line spacing, blank pages, and miscellaneous punctuation. Each page hand-numbered in ink on top right corner; more modern numbering in pencil on bottom right corner.
Provenance
From the collection of the poet's daughter, Geneviève Mallarmé-Bonniot, having been acquired by the Morgan with copy number 1 of the 1913 edition of "Poésies" especially printed for Madame Bonniot; from the sale "de la Bibliothèque Stéphane Mallarmé" (Sotheby's, Paris, 15 Oct. 2015, lot 182).
Summary
Pages from the first typographic edition marked up by several hands for the 1913 complete edition, which was published by Dr Edmond Bonniot and his wife, the poet's daughter, Geneviève Mallarmé-Bonniot. Interspersed are several manuscript leaves--four in Geneviève's hand, and four presumably in Edmond's--for the poems that would appear in the 1913 edition for the first time and one his daughter restored from the 1887 lithographed manuscript edition after her father had rejected it.
Binding
Loose leaves, never bound.
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