"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 the upper cover, cons. (tired headbands, crushed upper corners, scattered russets for the 2nd volume). Complete with the 14 original plates out of text. Quarterly collection of literature and art, which will only have two issues. Le Centaure is a magazine with a closed editorial staff 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 will recall this note in a letter to André Gide when the latter, dissatisfied with the articles of his friends, will want to leave what was not, in the mind of the authors, a review, but rather a "collection" where each of them could publish their latest productions in total independence. Le Centaure was inspired by the German Art Nouveau magazine, Pan, of which Henri Albert organized the French supplement between May and December 1895. Illustrated with lithographs, etchings or drypoints in black and in colors of Ch. Léandre, F. Rops (not in Rouir), M. Dethomas, A. Besnard, Paul Ranson, Anquetin, Charles Conder, etc.
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