SILVESTRE (Armand). Les Ailes d'orEn French,... - Lot 49 - Ader

SILVESTRE (Armand). Les Ailes d'orEn French, autograph manuscript with corrections. France, 1878-1880. 70 ff, fine writing in brown ink, numerous corrections and repentances . Full beige percaline booklet, smooth spine (damaged), on the upper cover drawings, initials AS [Armand Silvestre] and coat of arms and a motto "Ultima solatio". Rubbing and condition of use. Size : 148 x 97 mm. Novelist, poet, librettist and art critic, Armand Silvestre was born in 1837 in Paris and died in 1901 in Toulouse. From 1866, he published collections of verse. As an art and theatre critic, Silvestre was an active contributor to newspapers such as Opinion nationale, Journal officiel, L'Estafette and the Grande Revue de Paris et de Saint-Petersbourg. In 1869, he joined the Ministry of Finance and became deputy head of the library and archives office. During the Dreyfus Affair, he became a member of the "Ligue de la patrie française", an anti-Dreyfus league. Autograph dedication to Théodore de Banville: "Les Ailes d'or. 1878-1880. To Théodore de Banville. My master and my friend, I dedicate this book to you because it is the one in which I put the most of myself. I can therefore say, in offering it to you: et serves animæ dimidium meæ. This half of my soul is made of admiration, tenderness and gratitude for you. [signed] Armand Silvestre. Paris 1880. For a sample of Armand Silvestre's handwriting, see his "Poème autobiographique" reproduced in Joseph Uzanne, Figures contemporaines tirées de l'Album Mariani, Ernest Flammarion, Paris, vol. The work appeared in its first edition under the title Les Ailes d'or, Poésies nouvelles, 1878-1880, Paris, Charpentier, 1880 . The present manuscript offers several corrections and repentances, some poems appear to be unpublished and do not appear in the published collection. Sylvestre also includes an unpublished play at the end of the volume: Myzzha (ff. 55-58).