Paul VERLAINE. Autograph letter signed, addressed... - Lot 308 - Marie-Saint Germain

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Paul VERLAINE. Autograph letter signed, addressed... - Lot 308 - Marie-Saint Germain
Paul VERLAINE. Autograph letter signed, addressed to Félicien ROPS. In Gustave GUICHES. La Pudeur de Sodome, frontispiece engraved with etching by Félicien Rops. Paris, Maison Quantin, 1888. Volume in-folio, 33,5 x 24 cm, of 46 pages. Brown half-chagrin, spine ribbed, cover preserved (old binding). Copy enriched with a letter mounted on tab before the false title, where Verlaine gives his support to Henri d'Argis (pseudonym of Alphonse Berty), in his request for a frontispiece : " Paris le 27 juillet. My dear Mr. Rops, I have the pleasure of introducing you to my friend Henri d'Argis, author of a novel, Sodome, for which I wrote the preface, and who would be proud to have a frontispiece signed by you. He will go to see you next Tuesday and would be happy if you would set an hour for him to talk to you at length, - unless, even without knowing the work, you would be disturbed by your silence in lieu of an appointment. Your friend P. Verlaine, 14 rue Roger Collard. The address of M. d'Argis is: 21 rue Denfert Rochereau. First edition. Original etched frontispiece by Félicien Rops. Limited edition of 347 copies. One of the 325 on Hollande paper. Faded binding.
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