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VERLAINE Paul (1844 - 1896)
The item was sold for 3 640 €
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VERLAINE Paul (1844 - 1896)
Sagesse (Paris, Société générale de Librairie catholique, Ancienne maison Victor Palmé| Bruxelles, Ancienne maison Henri Goemaere, 1881 [1880])| in-8 (23,5 x 14,9 cm). Bradel grey half-percaline with corners, red title-piece on the spine, untrimmed.
First edition. Copy of Laurent TAILHADE enriched with the manuscript of Verlaine's article on Au pays du Mufle.
First edition, probably printed at 500 copies on wove paper.
Signed autograph on the false title: "to Laurent Tailhade very cordially.
P. Verlaine". [Laurent TAILHADE (1854 - 1919) was one of the thirty-six writers and artists who decided to collectively serve an annuity to the poet. He is also one of the dedicatees of Dédicaces and of a piece of Jadis et naguère].
An autograph MANUSCRIT signed "Paul Verlaine", Au pays du Mufle by Laurent Tailhade, and a L.A.S. from Laurent TAILHADE to Léon Vanier are bound in the front.
Au pays du Mufle by Laurent Tailhade (2 pages 1/3 in-8 filled with a small tight writing). The collection of "Ballades et quatorzains" by Tailhade had been published by Léon Vanier in 1891. Verlaine's article dates from this time, but we did not find if it had appeared| a different and shorter version than our manuscript was published in the OEuvres complètes de Verlaine, taken up again in the OEuvres en prose of the Bibliothèque de la
Pléiade (p. 744 - 746). Our manuscript is largely unpublished. Numerous variants appear from the beginning, while the second half, more extensive, with some erasures and corrections, offers a completely different writing. Verlaine analyzes and quotes other stanzas of Tailhade than in the edited text. Let us quote a part of the conclusion of the manuscript, which gives some clarifications on the history of this text: "What to add that is not already a repetition, because it is already quite a few months since the Pays du Mufle appeared? God, moreover, is my witness that the present article was written at the time of the blossoming of the deliciously terrible book, and that several newspapers, solicited, politely rejected these lines, although they were very nice and all good! Is it the title of the book that has frightened the natives of these places, like some allusion to someone there? [...] This will appear, where and when? but will appear, when it should be by force! I will make some day the history of this little work and its tragi-comic odyssey... However, Laurent Tailhade is working on a series of Ballads, compared to which the libel we are talking about at the moment borders on the bland! And that he does well, and that it is kind of him to give us still to laugh (and to admire), to
To give him, to this Mufle, still, - and for ever, to cry, to cry his tears of enraged calf!" And Verlaine salutes Armand Silvestre's preface to "this book that will remain".
The L.A.S. of Tailhade, of March 17, 1894, asks his editor Léon
Vanier, to "find" him a copy of the Pays du Mufle "as new as possible", adding: "Item, I would like a copy of Sagesse to make present to a lady whom I instruct in the Verlainian religion"...
PROVENANCE Laurent TAILHADE (consignment)| Édouard-Henri FISCHER (ex-libris |
C. Galantaris, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, catalog raisonné d'une collection, n° 43| Christie's Paris sale, n° 31).
Sagesse (Paris, Société générale de Librairie catholique, Ancienne maison Victor Palmé| Bruxelles, Ancienne maison Henri Goemaere, 1881 [1880])| in-8 (23,5 x 14,9 cm). Bradel grey half-percaline with corners, red title-piece on the spine, untrimmed.
First edition. Copy of Laurent TAILHADE enriched with the manuscript of Verlaine's article on Au pays du Mufle.
First edition, probably printed at 500 copies on wove paper.
Signed autograph on the false title: "to Laurent Tailhade very cordially.
P. Verlaine". [Laurent TAILHADE (1854 - 1919) was one of the thirty-six writers and artists who decided to collectively serve an annuity to the poet. He is also one of the dedicatees of Dédicaces and of a piece of Jadis et naguère].
An autograph MANUSCRIT signed "Paul Verlaine", Au pays du Mufle by Laurent Tailhade, and a L.A.S. from Laurent TAILHADE to Léon Vanier are bound in the front.
Au pays du Mufle by Laurent Tailhade (2 pages 1/3 in-8 filled with a small tight writing). The collection of "Ballades et quatorzains" by Tailhade had been published by Léon Vanier in 1891. Verlaine's article dates from this time, but we did not find if it had appeared| a different and shorter version than our manuscript was published in the OEuvres complètes de Verlaine, taken up again in the OEuvres en prose of the Bibliothèque de la
Pléiade (p. 744 - 746). Our manuscript is largely unpublished. Numerous variants appear from the beginning, while the second half, more extensive, with some erasures and corrections, offers a completely different writing. Verlaine analyzes and quotes other stanzas of Tailhade than in the edited text. Let us quote a part of the conclusion of the manuscript, which gives some clarifications on the history of this text: "What to add that is not already a repetition, because it is already quite a few months since the Pays du Mufle appeared? God, moreover, is my witness that the present article was written at the time of the blossoming of the deliciously terrible book, and that several newspapers, solicited, politely rejected these lines, although they were very nice and all good! Is it the title of the book that has frightened the natives of these places, like some allusion to someone there? [...] This will appear, where and when? but will appear, when it should be by force! I will make some day the history of this little work and its tragi-comic odyssey... However, Laurent Tailhade is working on a series of Ballads, compared to which the libel we are talking about at the moment borders on the bland! And that he does well, and that it is kind of him to give us still to laugh (and to admire), to
To give him, to this Mufle, still, - and for ever, to cry, to cry his tears of enraged calf!" And Verlaine salutes Armand Silvestre's preface to "this book that will remain".
The L.A.S. of Tailhade, of March 17, 1894, asks his editor Léon
Vanier, to "find" him a copy of the Pays du Mufle "as new as possible", adding: "Item, I would like a copy of Sagesse to make present to a lady whom I instruct in the Verlainian religion"...
PROVENANCE Laurent TAILHADE (consignment)| Édouard-Henri FISCHER (ex-libris |
C. Galantaris, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, catalog raisonné d'une collection, n° 43| Christie's Paris sale, n° 31).