BLOY (Léon). - Lot 62

BLOY (Léon). La Chevalière de la Mort. Paris: Mercure de France, 1896. - In-18, Bradel-style white half-parchment with corners, gilt fillets, smooth spine decorated with gilt grotesques, gilt head, untrimmed, cover preserved (Paul Vié). Partly first edition, the first published in France, of this mystical novel by Léon Bloy. It contains a preface and two previously unpublished chapters ("Le Fumier des lys" and "Le Prince noir"). The original appeared in Ghent in 1891, in an edition of 100 copies. ONE OF 17 NUMBERED COPIES ON HOLLAND PAPER, the only large paper after 5 on japon impérial. A good copy in a contemporary binding signed by Paul Vié. Some soiling to binding. Provenance: Pierre Berès bookshop, with name of author and price in the hand of Pierre Berès on verso of first endpaper.