Les Jardins, le Faune et le Poète.
by VOISINS, Comte A[uguste]. Gilbert de
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About This Item
(Brussels?).: Edition de la 'Libre Esthétique'., 1903, 3 mars.. Original publisher's grey wrappers with Yapp edges, stitched as issued, titles and vignette in black to front cover.. 12mo. (188 x 138 mm).. Leaf with justification verso, title with vignette and 'Du Même Auteur' verso, leaf with explanatory text and the text of de Voisins lecture; with the terminal blank. An excellent, unsophisticated copy of Comte Auguste Gilbert de Voisins lecture at the Salon de la Libre Esthétique on Henri de Regnier.From the edition limited to 100 numbered copies on Hollande Van Gelder printed 'pour les Membres Protecteurs de la Libre Esthétique'.'Je voudrais vous entretenir de certaines façons qu'il y a de transcrire un paysage en poésie ... je les prendrai, pour la plupart, dans lew dernier livre de vers d'un poète que vous aimez tous et qui, mieux que nul autre, a su dire la singularité et pénétrante poésie des grands parcs disposés en vue d'un noble effet, des allées que ferme un horizon artificiel coupé d'une nymphe neigeuse, des ifs taillés, des colonnades blanches et des jardins bien disposés. Autant vous le nommer tout de suite, son nom est déjåa sur vos lèvres, c'est d'Henri de Régnier surtout que je vous parlerai ... '. (From the opening of de Voisins lecture).
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- Bookseller
- Sims Reed Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47745
- Title
- Les Jardins, le Faune et le Poète.
- Author
- VOISINS, Comte A[uguste]. Gilbert de
- Format/Binding
- Original publisher's grey wrappers with Yapp edges, stitched as issued, titles and vignette in black to front cover.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Edition de la 'Libre Esthétique'.
- Place of Publication
- (Brussels?).
- Date Published
- 1903, 3 mars.
- Pages
- [18 leaves; pp. (i), 32].
- Size
- 12mo. (188 x 138 mm).
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