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- Lot 296
Émile VERHAEREN - Fifteen poems illustrated with 57 woodcuts, drawn and engraved by Frans MASEREEL and followed by a souvenir to Verhaeren by Octave UZANNE. Paris, Georges Crès, (1917). 27 x 20,5 cm, paperback, illustrated paperback cover. ciii, [1 bl.], [1], [1 bl.] leaves (the first 89 printed recto only). 59 woodcuts: 7 off-text, 51 in-text and 1 vignette repeated on the first board and title. Unique edition of these woodcuts illustrating 15 poems from different collections ("Les Flamandes", "Les Moines", "Les Campagnes hallucinées", "Les Villes tentaculaires", "Les Forces tumultueuses", "La multiple Splendeur", "Les Visages de la Vie", "Les douze Mois" and "Les Rythmes souverains"). Limited edition of 1555 numbered copies. One of 190 on Fabriano, 2nd paper (n° 49). Ref. Avermaete C-4. Mahé III, 641. Handwritten mention of ownership on the flyleaf. A very fresh copy.
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