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Choix de Poésies. Paris: Bibliothéque-Charpentier, 1904.
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VERLAINE, Paul (1844-1896)
Choix de Poésies. Paris: Bibliothéque-Charpentier, 1904.
Extra-illustrated with 6 original drawings by Charles Conder and inscribed by the artist: ‘To Mrs Edmund Davis Souvenir of Christmas Paris 1905. From Charles Conder’.
Octavo (175 x 111mm). Frontispiece portrait. Extra-illustrated with a pen-and-ink half-title illustration and five drawings by Charles Conder, three signed, pencil, crayon and watercolour (half-title backed onto frontispiece, some browning). Bound in full purple morocco, decorated with gilt rules and small circles filled with blue-green, by Ellen and Sofita Woolrich (spine lightly faded and with slight wear at foot); modern morocco box replicating binding design. Provenance: Mary Davis (1866-1941; presentation inscription from Conder on title verso) – Barry Humphries (1934-2023; bookplate in box).
Choix de Poésies. Paris: Bibliothéque-Charpentier, 1904.
Extra-illustrated with 6 original drawings by Charles Conder and inscribed by the artist: ‘To Mrs Edmund Davis Souvenir of Christmas Paris 1905. From Charles Conder’.
Octavo (175 x 111mm). Frontispiece portrait. Extra-illustrated with a pen-and-ink half-title illustration and five drawings by Charles Conder, three signed, pencil, crayon and watercolour (half-title backed onto frontispiece, some browning). Bound in full purple morocco, decorated with gilt rules and small circles filled with blue-green, by Ellen and Sofita Woolrich (spine lightly faded and with slight wear at foot); modern morocco box replicating binding design. Provenance: Mary Davis (1866-1941; presentation inscription from Conder on title verso) – Barry Humphries (1934-2023; bookplate in box).
