L'ARC-EN-CIEL - Lot 211

L'ARC-EN-CIEL Art magazine N° 1, June 1900-N° 10, May 1901. Meaux, Director: Henri Erasme Anger. Texts by Jean Bourguignon, René Bruneau, Ernest Delahaye, Henri Erasme Anger, Ernest Gaubert, Gustave Jeannot, Hugues Lapaire, Gabriel de Lautrec, Pierre Lelong, Ernest Raynaud, Emmanuel Signoret, Eugène Soubeyre, Paul Souchon, Albert Thomas, Louis Tiercelin, etc. Complete collection. 10 numbers in 10 issues in 1 vol. in-12 bound (covers preserved). Handwritten notes by Vasseur (2 ff.). Henri Erasme Anger announced his intentions in the 1st issue of L'Arc-en-Ciel: "[...] Leaving to others the interesting questions of politics, sociology, humanitairerie (as Musset used to say), we will deal exclusively with poetry and poets. We will publish poems, whatever their artistic tendency; we will discuss books of verse and writers, living or dead, whose work deserves mention or remembrance. [...]" The magazine's interest is justified above all by Ernest Delahaye's articles, "Histoire d'un cerveau français (étude sur Arthur Rimbaud)", which begin in issue no. 1 and continue uninterrupted until issue no. 10.