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Romances sans paroles : Ariettes oubliées. Paysage belges. Birds in the night. Aquarelles.

Accession number
PML 195831
Creator
Verlaine, Paul, 1844-1896.
Published
Sens [France] : Typographie de Maurice L'Hermitte, 1874.
Description
48, [1] p. ; 19 cm
Notes
First edition, limited to 300 unnumbered copies. Cf. Bever and Montel.
Printed at the expense of the author, with the supervisory assistance of Edmond Lepelletier.
Contents listed on title page.
Imprint on cover: Paris, Chez tous les libraires, 1
Binding
Cyclamen calf tooled in gilt and palladium with silver morocco onlays in an arabesque pattern designed by Paul Bonet, with the forwarding executed by René Desmules and gilding by Raymond Mondange, bound May 1954 and gilded in Feb. of 1955 (see Bonet's Ca
Inscriptions/Markings
Library's copy has typographical errors corrected by hand in pencil on the last page of text, as similarly recorded for other copies of the first edition, with the ms. corrections variously attributed to Verlaine himself or to the hand of the author's fri
Provenance
Bookplate of Jean Bonna.
Classification
Century
Department