Laurent Tailhade - Vitraux [1/500 sur Hollande] - 1891

Original edition limited to only 500 copies on Holland paper, this one No. 104. A rare booklet consisting of 15 poems by Laurent Tailhade, excerpts from 'Sur Champ d'or,' a volume in preparation at the time.

Preserved in a beautiful binding executed in Bradel style with half ivory vellum, featuring a smooth spine decorated with a blue leather title piece, gilded initials, and a fleur-de-lis. The covers are preserved (without the spine).
Untrimmed copy, in very good condition. Solid binding, spine showing some traces of dirt. Fresh and clean interior, slightly creased margins.

Laurent Tailhade, born in Tarbes on April 16, 1854, and died in Combs-la-Ville on November 1, 1919, was a French polemicist, poet, lecturer, libertarian pamphleteer, and Freemason. He used numerous pseudonyms: Azède, El Cachetero, Dom Junipérien, Lorenzaccio, Patte-Pelue, Renzi, Tybalt.
First-rate pamphleteer (he mocks July 14 and its celebrations in Les Commérages de Tybalt), but also a poet. According to Charles Dantzig in his Egoist Dictionary of French Literature, 'Le grand Tailhade (…) is found in the Elegiac Poems, which have nothing of the plaintive that their name might suggest.'

Laurent Tailhade
Stained glass windows
Paris, Léon Vanier, 1891
In-8 (20x15 cm); 51 pages