Verlaine - Œuvres libres - 1948

Verlaine. Free Works
Brussels, 1948
in-4 (25 x 20 cm); 109 pp. 3 f. (last blank)

Edition sought-after of Verlaine's erotic poems (Amies, Femmes, Hombres), adorned with 12 free-standing color illustrations hors-texte and numerous black tailpieces, by Paul-Emile Bécat. The renowned illustrator proves more daring than usual...‎ Checked and complete.

Limited edition of 522 copies, this one on Johannot watermark, bearing no. 491.

In sheets, with a deckle edge cover and double enclosures (binding + slipcase).

Condition: sun-faded cover, foxing. Interior pristine, uncut. Case and cover clean. Very good condition.

' Femmes, sixteen pieces composed between 1888 and 1890 and printed in Brussels in 1891, and Hombres, whose twelve poems were published, "under the mantle", only after the poet's death, are two sets of poems belonging to what is called the "margins" of Verlaine's production. '

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