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[VILLA] [HARAUCOURT] Le Sire de Chambley. - Lot 86

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[VILLA] [HARAUCOURT] Le Sire de Chambley. - Lot 86
[VILLA] [HARAUCOURT] Le Sire de Chambley. La Légende des Sexes. Poèmes hystériques. Bruxelles, 1882 (1883), in-8 paperback in double slipcase. Illustrated with 12 loose black lithographs by Georges Villa set separately. First edition printed at 200 copies, in two series, and 12 copies on Japon paper. "These volumes, all numbered and initialed by the author, cannot be sold. Copy on laid paper at the end of the second series, dedicated, numbered and signed by the author: "Le Sire de Chambley dedicates this copy to his friend the Bonhomme Aubois, to whom he regrets not having been able to make room in this legend published before his birth, and begs the kind comrade Louis Horovitz to convey my sympathies. Edmond Haraucourt", and further down "N°99b, Edition de 1883 aux Bibliophiles du Cornet". In a letter, Haraucourt complained of plagiarism: "You know that this unfortunate book was plagiarized more than twenty times by forbidding persons who secretly republished it (...) And some also embellished their edition with etchings that I disapprove of... You are therefore the only one, Georges Villa, my dear friend, the only one whose collaboration pleases me, and your twelve lithographs are the only illustrations I have applauded".
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