Jules BARBEY d’AUREVILLY (1808 – 1913) - Lot 66

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Jules BARBEY d’AUREVILLY (1808 – 1913) - Lot 66
Jules BARBEY d’AUREVILLY (1808 – 1913) Disjecta memBra. [Paris, Lafuma, 1920]. One volume in-4 (255 x 200 mm) of 177 leaves, in red paper bradel boards, title and gilt ornaments on the boards and on the spine, untrimmed, and one fascicle of the same size, stapled in marbled paper cover. A deluxe edition, largely original, giving the complete reproduction in facsimile by the Jacomet process of Barbey's personal manuscript register, an extraordinary and abundant collection of thoughts, notes, poems, drawings, drafts and sketches of works, newspaper clippings, the whole forming a real repertoire of ideas, texts and projects. This astonishing document is superbly written with colored inks and enriched with multiple ornaments, arrows, playing cards, swords, female silhouettes, etc., testifying to the unbridled fantasy of the writer. Limited edition of 150 numbered copies, of which 130 were put on the market, this one n° 18. Copy covered with its edition cardboard imitating the red morocco binding of the original manuscript belonging to Louise Read, the writer's heir. It is complete with the booklet accompanying the volume, containing a preface by Gustave Geoffroy and an unpublished portrait of Barbey engraved by Ernest Laborde after A. Salomon. Attached: - A loose leaf of autograph notes by Barbey d'Aurevilly, written on both sides in black ink, about the princess Des Ursins (1642 - 1722). - disJeCta memBra. Extracts from his notebook. With portrait and three autographs. Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Amitié de France, 1909. In-4 of a portrait, VI pp., (1) f., 92 pp. 3 folding plates, contemporary binding in red half cloth, cover illustrated with a vignette on the second plate and spine preserved. Rare first edition, printed at 150 numbered copies (this one n° 100), of these extracts, the first published, of the Disjecta Membra. The volume remained unknown to Talvart, who gives for EO the in-8 edition of 1911. Portrait and three facsimiles of autographs out of text, woodcut culs-de-lampe by Camille Monnet. The first two thirds of the volume are occupied by articles dedicated to Barbey by Georges Dumesnil, Emile Baumann, Pierre Lasserre and Claude Neydens. In fi ne, prospectus and two press clippings pasted on white paper (articles by Henry Jaudon dedicated to Barbey). - omnia (Cahiers de notes), edited by Andrée Hirschi and Jacques Petit. Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1970. In-8, br. - BALZAC (H.de). Pensées et Maximes. Collected and classified by J. Barbey d'Aurevilly. Paris, Lemerre, 1909. First edition of these extracts. Autograph letter from Louise Read (?) (name of the recipient and signature scratched). Attached, flying, an autograph bill (4 lines) in red ink signed by Barbey.
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