MALLARMÉ Stéphane – MANET Édouard Lot n° 50

MALLARMÉ Stéphane - [MANET Édouard] MYTHICAL FIRST EDITION Afternoon of a Faun Paris, Alphonse Derenne, 1876 In-4°, paperback. Title in gilt lettering on 1st cover. Minor nicks in margin of justification leaf with no loss of text and ghostly library trace at bottom of 4th cover. Price label and black and pink silk cords complete. Original edition illustrated by Édouard Manet, with a flying frontispiece and a passe-partout bookplate on Chine on which the bibliophile could write his name, enhanced by a pink wash by Manet himself, and two woodcut illustrations in the text. Edition of 195 copies. 1/175 on Hollande justified by Mallarmé on the bookplate (n°103) "L'Après-midi d'un faune" is considered the poet's masterpiece. A very fine copy.