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L'après-midi d'un faune : églogue / par Stéphane Mallarmé, avec frontispice, fleurons & cul-de-lampe.

Accession number
PML 140627
Creator
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898.
Published
Paris : Alphonse Derenne, 1876.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
First ed. of Mallarmé's poem.
The frontispiece, head- & tail-piece & a specially designed bookplate for this work are after Manet.
Wood engravings printed in black, with hand-tinted rose wash applied to the frontispiece and ex-libris.
Frontispiece illustration printed on chine.
With pink and black silk cords mounted under price label on inside back wrapper.
"195 exemplaires dont 20 sur japon ont été imprimés chez Alphonse Derenne"--Limitation statement.
No. 73 of 175 copies on hollande, out of a total edition of 195.
Description
12 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (wood engraving) ; 30 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Mary S. Collins ; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Original wrappers.
Classification
Department