ENRICHED COPY. Octave MIRBEAU - Auguste RODIN... - Lot 228 - Marie-Saint Germain

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ENRICHED COPY. Octave MIRBEAU - Auguste RODIN... - Lot 228 - Marie-Saint Germain
ENRICHED COPY. Octave MIRBEAU - Auguste RODIN - Evelio TORENT. Le Jardin des Supplices. Paris, Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1899, very small in-4, xxviii and 327 pages, full marbled blond basane, spine with false nerves decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, gilt palette on the inner border, filled cover preserved, natural edges (modern binding). First edition limited to 150 numbered copies on vellum. With a coloured drawing in frontispiece, printed separately, by Auguste Rodin, initialled by the artist and printed by A. Clot. Unique copy enriched, in the blank of the text, with 84 original watercolours by Evelio Torent, most of them signed or monogrammed, a typed letter from Rodin, signed and annotated by hand, addressed to Jérôme Doucet inviting him to lunch "and asking that Madame also do us the honour of coming", two handwritten letters from the author (1 card addressed to the artist to thank him for having thought of illustrating his work ("Unfortunately," he wrote to him, "Auguste Rodin has made illustrations for an edition to be published next year by Vollard"), and a letter, probably to his publisher, concerning the writing of Rodin's portrait.
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