Chansons et Poesies Lyriques [Slip Signed by the Author Laid in]
- SIGNED
- Liege: Aug. Benard, 1895
Liege: Aug. Benard, 1895. Very Good. Liège: Aug. Bénard, 1895. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's pictorial red and tan pictorial wrappers; 243pp.; black and white portrait frontispiece, 32 vignettes printed in tan and orange. Expert restoration to top upper cover edge and lower corner, endpapers a bit toned, else Very Good. Blue slip signed by the author laid in.
The collected poetry and prose of one of the leading men of letters in the Wallonian dialect of the 19th century. Illustrated by two of the principal illustrators at the Bénard press, where they would galvanize the movement towards commercial avant-garde art at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
The collected poetry and prose of one of the leading men of letters in the Wallonian dialect of the 19th century. Illustrated by two of the principal illustrators at the Bénard press, where they would galvanize the movement towards commercial avant-garde art at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.