Accession number
PML 128786
Creator
Banville, Théodore Faullain de, 1823-1891, author.
Published
Paris : Librairie de Poulet-Malassis, 1862.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard, 1974.
Notes
Publisher's advertisements, "Liste complète des ouvrages de Théodore de Banville," (pages [43]-47) at end.
Description
[10], 40, [3], 44-47, [1] pages ; 15 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscribed poem in red ink on half title: "A Madame Edouard Manet [Suzanne Leenhoff]. / Aux cieux pour nous ont resplendi / Les étoiles en plein midi. / Avec des cailloux, le trouvére / Se fabrique ses diamants: / Donc ne me soyez point sévère / Si j'ai prêté des noms charmants / A ces pauvres morceaux de verre. / Théodore de Banville."
Provenance
Suzanne Manet (née Leenhoff); by descent to her son Léon Leenhoff; acquired by Adolphe Tabarant probably before 1923; by descent to his daughter Lucienne Tabarant and sold by her to Mina Curtiss in 1960; purchased by the Morgan from Mina Curtiss in 1974 with the library of Edouard Manet.
Binding
1/4 green morocco over marbled boards with marbled end papers.
Classification
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