Paul VERLAINE. Autograph letter SIGNED addressed to Félicien - Lot 83

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Paul VERLAINE. Autograph letter SIGNED addressed to Félicien - Lot 83
Paul VERLAINE. Autograph letter SIGNED addressed to Félicien ROPS. In Gustave GUICHES. La Pudeur de Sodome, frontispiece engraved with etching by Félicien Rops. Paris, Maison Quantin, 1888. Volume in-folio, 33.5 x 24 cm, 46 pages. Brown half-brown grief, spine ribbed, cover preserved (old binding). Copy enriched with a tabbed letter before the false title, in which Verlaine supports Henri d'Argis (pseudonym of Alphonse Berty) in his request for a frontispiece: "Paris le 27 juillet. My dear Mr. Rops, I have the pleasure of introducing you to my friend Henri d'Argis, author of a novel, Sodom, of which I wrote the preface, and who would be proud to have a frontispiece signed by you. He will go to see you next Tuesday and would be happy if you could fix a time for him to speak to you a little at length, - unless from now on, even without knowing the work, it bothers you, your silence would serve as a meeting place for him.your friend P. Verlaine, 14 rue Roger Collard. The address of M. d'Argis is: 21 rue Denfert Rochereau. "Original edition. Original frontispiece engraved with etching by Félicien Rops. Limited edition of 347 copies. One of the 325 on paper from Holland. Binding in poor condition.
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