LECONTE de LISLE Charles Marie René. Poésies complètes. Paris, Poulet Malassis et de Broise, 1858.
In-8 (195 x 133 mm): [3] ff, 333 pp, [1] f. Covers and spine preserved. Dark brown half-basin, spine with gilt roulette decoration, gilt author, title and date (modern binding in the style of the period).
First edition. First collective and partly original edition (Vicaire), initially sold at 4 francs, with an etching drawn and engraved by Louis Duveau (1818-1867). A few copies were printed on Hollande laid paper signed by the author.
Our copy is absolutely unique in that it includes a second volume in folio format (330 x 255 mm) with the original copperplate by Louis Duveau used for the present edition.
Attached is an A.L.S. from Leconte de Lisle, made in Paris on 18 January 1887, addressed to Dumas fils. The author thanks Dumas fils for being his godfather on the occasion of his acceptance speech at the Académie française, which took place on 31 March 1887. Leconte de Lisle was elected to the Académie on 11 February 1886, taking over the seat from Victor Hugo (who had died in 1885) after Hugo had voted for Leconte de Lisle in his second candidacy, thus making our poet his legitimate successor.
From the library of the abbey of Sainte-Marie de Maumont and Ryckebusch; their bookplates on the flyleaf. Unidentified armorial stamp on the last leaf of the work with the inscriptions ‘Concordiae Fructus’.
