Jules BARBEY D'AUREVILLY. - Lot 39

Jules BARBEY D'AUREVILLY. Disjecta membra [Facsimile]. Paris, D. Jacomet pour Roger Crès, 1920. In-4, publisher's boards, in slipcase. Binding faded, rubbed, upper spine cracked; first few folios flyleafed. BEAUTIFUL FAC-SIMILE PRINTING DEVOILING THE WRITER'S CREATIVE PROCESS, published by his muse, Mademoiselle Louise Read, who collected this manuscript on his death. Facsimile of the manuscript (approx. 320 pages), written in colored inks with multiple highlights in red, green, blue, gold and silver, this is an important collection of poems, drafts, aphorisms, thoughts and reading notes, interspersed with faithfully reproduced newspaper clippings, illustrated with numerous drawings by the writer. Accompanied by a booklet with commentary by Georges Geffroy, with an unpublished portrait of Barbey d'Aurevilly, engraved by Ernest Laborde in 1921 after a portrait executed in 1859 by H. Salomon. Unique EDITION of 150 copies, one of 130 available for subscription (no. 68), signed with Louise Read's initials, with the subscription form and a printed note for enthusiasts to have the volume bound. Enriched with a photo portrait of Barbey, a silver print of the writer's bedroom, 25 Rue Rousselet (stamp of photographer Georges Allié on verso), a drawing of "Le Lièvre & la Grenouille, fable à la plume de Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly", and an envelope with Barbey's autograph letter to Georges Landry (red, blue and black ink).