"Le Centaure".

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"Le Centaure".
Quarterly collection of Literature and Art. Volumes 1 and 2 (all that has been published). Paris, 1896, 2 vols. 4°, full green cloth, smooth mute spine, gilt title and tomaison on upper board, cover on board. (headbands tired, upper corners crushed, scattered russets for the 2nd vol.) Complete with 14 original plates. Quarterly collection of literature and art, which will only have two issues. Le Centaure is a closed-edition journal where one finds the friends of Pierre Louÿs, all regulars of Edmond Bailly's publishing house, the Librairie de L'Art Indépendant and of the café d'Harcourt: Jean de Tinan, André Lebey, Henri de Régnier, André Gide, Paul Valéry, A.-F. Herold, and Henri Albert. The editor-in-chief of Le Centaure will be Henri Albert, Jean de Tinan will be the manager and the editorial secretary. A note illustrated with a drawing by Charles Léandre indicates that "the opinions expressed by the author of the Chronicle do not commit the other editors in any way". Henri de Régnier recalled this note in a letter to André Gide when the latter, dissatisfied with the articles of his friends, wanted to leave what was not, in the minds of the authors, a review, but rather a "collection" where each of them could publish their latest productions in complete independence. Le Centaure was inspired by the German Art Nouveau magazine, Pan, whose French supplement Henri Albert organized between May and December 1895. Illustrated with lithographs, etchings or drypoints in black and in colours by Ch. Léandre, F. Rops (not in Rouir), M. Dethomas, A. Besnard, Paul Ranson, Anquetin, Charles Conder, etc.
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