"Complete Works Of Paul Verlaine Illustrated By Berthold Mahn In 8 Volumes, 1931 Edition"
Complete works of Paul Verlaine illustrated by Berthold Mahn Complete set in 8 volumes in In-4° format (24/19 cm), bound in half leather shagreen, midnight blue, with corners Spine with 4 bands, boxes decorated with a double fillet frame, title and volume stamped gold. Gilt head cups Marbled counterplates and endpapers, preserved bookmarks. Original covers and spines preserved. A half-title and a title for each of the 8 volumes as well as a fine table. LXXXII, 199; 261; 321; 279; 307; 351; 277; and 340 pages. 64 out-of-text illustrations, in black and 32 out-of-text illustrations in color + numerous in-text illustrations. The set entirely illustrated by Berthold Mahn. Librairie de France edition from 1931 Binding in good condition with some traces of use but very solid and uniform overall. Interior in very good condition d: 19 x 24 cm Vol.1: Saturnian poems, Fêtes galantes, La bonne song, Romances without words. Flight. 2: Wisdom, Then and Now. Flight. 3: Love, Parallel, Happiness. Vol 4: Songs for Her, Intimate Liturgies, Odes in Her Honor, Elegies, In Limbo. Flight. 5: Dedications, Epigrams, Invectives. Flight. 6: Flesh, Verse of Youth, Who Wants Wonders, Unpublished Verse, Long Live the King!, The posthumous book. Flight. 7: Charles Baudelaire, The cursed poets, Fifteen days in Holland, Confessions. Vol.8: Louis Leclercq, Pierre Duchatelet, The Post, Memoirs of a Widower, My Hospitals, My Prisons, Memory and Walks.