Paul Manivet; Pierre Jouve - En Avignon - 1900

1 strong volume in-4 softcover, 178 pages - Several unstapled notebooks, to be consolidated, interior very fresh - Very good condition.

[Numbered and nominative edition, printed for Mr. Doctor Félix Barral]
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In Avignon. Modern Poems is a collection of Paul Manivet's poems, published in 1900 by Alphonse Lemerre.

The work is particularly remarkable for its rich illustration by Pierre Jouve (not to be confused with the writer Pierre Jean Jouve). The illustrations include:

inlays;
headbands;
drop caps;
cul-de-lampe.

The portrait of Paul Manivet in the frontispiece is by Paul Maurou.

The book runs about 175 to 178 pages depending on the copy and constitutes a poetic homage to Avignon. Manivet celebrates the city, its streets, its monuments, its gardens, the Rhône and Provençal life in a vein that is both lyrical and regionalist. The work is among his most important.

The illustrator Pierre Jouve is today a little-known artist, active in the field of book illustration around 1900. He should not be confused with Pierre Jean Jouve (1887-1976), a famous poet, who was still a teenager when this book was published.