Claudius Popelin - Un cent de strophes à Pailleron [reliure mosaïquée de Amand] - 1881

Original edition of this very beautiful book by the French painter, enameler, and poet Claudius Popelin (1825-1892). It features a poem of 100 stanzas addressed to the poet and playwright Édouard Pailleron (1829-1899).

You whip like Juvenal, you charm as much as Tibullus, you weave the flowers of the ball with the whip of the ergastulum. In a language all your own, your talent, which has been free to frolic, can be better applied, you little rascal! Than splitting hairs.

Title page, with the title page, banner, and tailpiece decorated by the author in two shades of red and black, text framed by a red border. Stunning typography. Beautiful impression on heavy vellum.

Copy bound with a binding signed by Amand in red morocco, covers decorated with a beautiful mosaic composition, title with small gold tools on the front. Spine with raised bands, gold title. Inner dentelle, all edges gilded.

Condition: Scuffs at the ends of the covers, otherwise very beautiful binding. Impeccable interior. In very good condition.

Claudius Popelin
A hundred stanzas at Pailleron [mosaic binding by Amand]
Paris, imp. Quantin, 1881
in-4 (28 x 19 cm); 30pp.

Claudius Popelin (1825-1892) was the preface writer and translator of several treatises on ancient arts, including the three books of the art of pottery by Cyprian Piccolpassi, a well-known text among alchemists. He is also the translator of the 'Songe de Poliphile,' a text with origins in the Renaissance.