LEROUX - GUÉRIN (Charles) - Le semeur de cendres.... Lot 700

[LEROUX] - GUÉRIN (Charles) - Le semeur de cendres. Paris, F. Ferroud, 1923; large in-8, 220 pp. + 2 ff, paperback, filled cover, illustrated in color. Magnificent deluxe edition illustrated by Leroux Auguste with 15 etchings by Decisy, and woodcuts by Clément. Including a color frontispiece, 11 hors-texts, 2 headpieces and a cul-de-lampe. One of the numbered copies on Arches vellum. Charles Guérin was born in Lunéville on December 29, 1873. Born into a family of industrialists from Lorraine, owner of Lunéville's famous Saint Clément earthenware factory, he was educated at Lunéville's Lycée St Pierre Fourrier, before entering the University of Letters in Nancy, where he prepared a degree in German. But Guérin preferred to devote himself to poetry, and soon published his first collection, "Fleurs de neige", in 1873. He shared a close friendship with Francis Jammes, who dedicated several of his poems to him. He died far too young, aged 33, carried off by a brain tumor. Consultant : Mr. Philippe HENRY