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MALLARMÉ Stéphane (1842 - 1898)

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MALLARMÉ Stéphane (1842 - 1898)
L.A. (minute), Paris Saturday February [1887?, to Léon VANIER]| 2 pages in-12 (card), with numerous erasures and corrections.
Heavily crossed-out draft of the letter of rupture with the publisher Léon Vanier.
[In 1886, for a few hundred francs, Mallarmé gave up to Léon Vanier, with whom he had
Vanier, with whom he had already signed a contract in 1885 for the Poèmes d'Edgar Poe, the right to publish the Faune in a modest form, in a thousand copies. The contract provides for the refurbishing of the copies of the Derenne edition. But, for the Poèmes d'Edgar Poe as for the
Faune, there are more and more disputes with Vanier. Mallarmé had him taken to court in September 1887. As early as March 1887, he took the lead and
The Revue indépendante, directed by Édouard Dujardin, prints a new edition, with a brick cover, called "definitive" of L'Après-
Midi d'un Faune. It is an edition, in nine photolithographed notebooks, of the manuscripts of Poésies| the Faune, in which Manet's woodcuts do not appear, is the sixth, printed in an edition of 47 copies, with a frontispiece by Félicien Rops].
He warns him "that I give orders to a friendly publisher to print, in a way that pleases me, a booklet containing exactly the poems you have lent [sic] in the past and some others with blanks and without mistakes. I remove, that goes without saying, your title but indicate that this new Anthology of my works, is the only publication recognized by me. I will finally take care of what may remain of the edition in Vanier's name made at the same price and put a stop to its debit. I should have acted at once too, without letting myself be taken in by your procrastination"...
Attached is a L.A.S. from Alfred de VIGNY, March 5, 1854, invitation to come and have tea with Brizeux (1 p. ¼ in-8).