Paul VERLAINE. Autograph poem signed “Voilà bien le déjà qua - Lot 411

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Paul VERLAINE. Autograph poem signed “Voilà bien le déjà qua - Lot 411
Paul VERLAINE. Autograph poem signed “Voilà bien le déjà quantième”..., January 1, 1893; 1 page, large 8vo, on administrative paper from the Assistance publique; mounted on a tab in a copy of *Dans les limbes* (Paris, Léon Vanier, 1894); small 8vo, Bradel binding in midnight blue percaline (E. Carayon). A clean copy of a poem from *Dans les limbes*; the manuscript, in brown ink, signed and dated January 1, 1893, was numbered IV, corrected to VIII in red pencil; the poem is indeed the 8th piece in the collection; it consists of 20 lines. “This is indeed the umpteenth day of the year That you see me here: the first was in ***. Ah! My love is already more than five years old; […] The voice fades away, but the memory remains”... This manuscript offers a variant of the tenth line: “Still, days forever and sweet loves” (in the printed edition: “And days and days and sweet loves”). It appears at the beginning of the original edition of *Dans les limbes* (Paris, Léon Vanier, 1894), one of 20 copies on Imperial Japanese paper (no. 14, initialed by Léon Vanier), untrimmed, with a cover. In addition to the frontispiece portrait of Ladislas Loévy, dated [18]88, a portrait of Verlaine by F.-A. Cazals, printed on Whatman paper, has been bound at the beginning. Provenance: Henry Bradley Martin (bookplate, catalog [Part IV]: Highly Important French Literature, Monaco auction, October 16, 1989, lot 1278). – Édouard-Henri Fischer (bookplate, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, “The Literary Collection of Édouard-Henri Fischer,” Christie’s Paris, November 4, 2014, lot 126).
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