Les Vrilles de la vigne.
Paris, Éditions de "La Vie parisienne", [1908].
In-16, wide-margined copy (205 x 140 mm), 224 pp., smooth-backed morocco, mosaic decoration of polychrome scrolls, with gilt filets and repeated motifs stamped in black on the plates, spine and inside frame, covers preserved, gilt edges on witnesses (Huser).
ORIGINAL EDITION, ONE OF THE RARE EXAMPLES NUMBERED ON HOLLAND, not mentioned by Talvart and Place.
Illustration on the cover and in the text by G.
Bonnet.
ENRICHED EXAMPLES OF THE SELF-EMPLOYED COLLECTED MANUSCRIPT OF ONE OF THE RECIPIENT TALKS (8 ff. in-4, erasures and corrections), printed under the title "The Lady who sings", on pages 53 to 61: "The Lady who was going to sing went towards the piano, and I suddenly felt a ferocious soul, a concentrated and immobile prisoner's revolt. While she was struggling to split the sitting gowns, her skirt stuck to her knees like a muddy wave, I wished her death, syncope, or even the simultaneous breaking of her four garters..."
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