Extremely rare first edition in full morocco... - Lot 47 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

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Extremely rare first edition in full morocco... - Lot 47 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
Extremely rare first edition in full morocco lined by P.L. Martin.- RIMBAUD (Arthur). A season in hell. Brussels, Alliance typographique (M.-J. Poot et Compagnie), 1873, in-12, 53 p., full red morocco, spine with 5 nerves, author, title and date gilt, double gilt fillet on the edges, black full morocco covers, red silk endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, covers (which takes the place of title) and spine preserved, case lined with the same (binding signed by P.L. Martin) First edition printed at 450 or 500 copies on ordinary wove paper. "Rimbaud received about ten copies from the printer [...]. In 1901, a Belgian bibliophile, Léon Losseau, discovered in the cellars of the Brussels printer M.-J. Poot a bundle of 425 copies stored there since 1873 and that Rimbaud, for lack of money, had not been able to remove. He destroyed some of them that had suffered from humidity, and distributed some others to institutions and bibliophiles" (Ch. Galantaris, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé. P., 2000, n° 220). This stock was forgotten and was only rediscovered by a Brussels bookseller years later. A new purification was carried out for the copies that showed pitting, only the copies in new condition were kept. A copy in perfect condition in a sober but very beautiful lined binding by P.L. Martin.
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