Catulle Mendès - Le crime du vieux Blas - 1882

First edition (1 duodecimo volume, 132 pp.)

at Henry Kistemaeckers (traditionally, 1000 unjustified copies on Holland paper for the first editions.)

With the engraved portrait frontispiece of the author.
Eugène Seligmann’s bookplate.

Catulle Mendès is the founder of the "Revue Fantaisiste", he is one of the fathers of the Parnassian poets, and is also a figure of the decadentist movement and a friend of Victor Hugo and Guy de Maupassant.

Blue half sheepskin binding, spine with flower patterns.
Small scratches at the spine and edges, otherwise very fresh inside.