Lot 442
Verlaine (Paul) Choix de poésies, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Henri Simond, Paris, Bibliotheque Charpentier, 1891.
Estimate: £500 - 700
Description
Verlaine (Paul) Choix de Poésies, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "hommage reconaissant del' auteur" to Henri Simond to half-title, portrait frontispiece, light foxing and browning, later half cloth, 8vo, Paris, Bibliotheque Charpentier, 1891.
⁂ Rare inscribed. Henri Simond was the director of the daily newspaper L'Echo de Paris. In 1891 the newspaper ran a fundraiser to support Verlaine and it is likely that this is what Verlaine is referring to in the inscription.
Description
Verlaine (Paul) Choix de Poésies, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "hommage reconaissant del' auteur" to Henri Simond to half-title, portrait frontispiece, light foxing and browning, later half cloth, 8vo, Paris, Bibliotheque Charpentier, 1891.
⁂ Rare inscribed. Henri Simond was the director of the daily newspaper L'Echo de Paris. In 1891 the newspaper ran a fundraiser to support Verlaine and it is likely that this is what Verlaine is referring to in the inscription.
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