VERLAINE. - Lot 224

VERLAINE. [Set of 3 illustrated titles]. LOT of 3 beautiful bound editions. In large 8vo format. -GUIGNEBAULT. VERLAINE. La Bonne Chanson. Paris, Librairie Albert Messein, 1914. 96 pp., contemporary fawn sheepskin, spine with 3 raised bands, gilt title, allegorical figure on the covers, gilt headpiece, cover and spine preserved (spine faded, scuffs). Illustrations enhanced with watercolor. Copy no. 84. One of 500 printed on custom-sized vellum. -BONFILS. VERLAINE. Fêtes galantes. Paris, Librairie Albert Messein, 1915. 104 pp. Contemporary black half-basane morocco binding, spine with 5 raised bands, title, author, and date gilt; cover and spine preserved (spine faded, scuff marks on the raised bands). Illustrations printed in blue and enhanced with watercolor. Copy no. 393. One of 500 printed on vellum in the original format. -PICART LE DOUX. VERLAINE. Romances sans paroles. Paris, Librairie Albert Messein, 1920. 117 pp. Contemporary black half-basane leather binding with morocco trim, spine with 5 raised bands, title, author, and date gilt; cover and spine preserved (spine faded and rubbed, with minor scuffs). Illustrations printed in blue and enhanced with watercolor. Copy No. 393. One of 500 printed on vellum. Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller and lover of bookbindings, a flutist, and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the decorative arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were staged primarily in the Paris region.