Théodore de Banville - Choix de poésies [reliure de Bonleu] - 1912

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Collection of poems by Théodore Banville, illustrated with 3 portraits after Auguste Préault, A. Dehodencq and Georges Rochegrosse. Edition on current paper, after the extremely rare 15 of head on Holland numbered.

Copy established in a luxurious binding signed Bonleu executed in lemon half-shagreen, leather-wrapped spine. Mosaic decoration with motifs of black leather fleurons placed in the centers of repeated golden boxes. Mosaic morocco piece indicating the title and the author in gold. Year of edition at the bottom. Golden nets delimiting the leather of the dishes. Golden head. Name of the binder inscribed on the first endpaper.

Beautiful untrimmed copy, in very good fresh condition. Impeccable binding. Back a little shaded. Interior yellowed but clean.

Théodore de Banville 1823-1891 poet, playwright
and French drama critic. Famous for the funambulesque Odes and the Exiles, he is nicknamed "the poet of happiness". Friend of Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier, he was considered during his lifetime as one of the most eminent poets of his time. He notably discovered the budding talent of Arthur Rimbaud. Théodore de Banville unites in his work romanticism and parnassus, of which he was one of the precursors. He professed an exclusive love of beauty and the universal clarity of the poetic act, opposing both realistic poetry and the degeneration of romanticism, against which he affirmed his faith in the purity of artistic creation.

Theodore de Banville; Bonleu (binding of)
Choice of poems
Paris, Charpentier Fasquelle, 1912
in-8 (18.5 x 12 cm); xxvii-323pp.

Subject: Beautiful Mosaic Binding signed Bonleu Poesie THEODORE DE BANVILLE 1912 67467343 Read more