Null BLOY (Léon).
Un brelan d'excommuniés.
Paris: Nouvelle librairie parisienne,…
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BLOY (Léon). Un brelan d'excommuniés. Paris: Nouvelle librairie parisienne, Albert Savine, 1889. - In-12, 182 x 118: 128 pp, (2 ff. last blank), printed cover. Red half-percaline à la Bradel, smooth spine, cover preserved (period binding). Original edition not printed on large paper. In this book, Bloy sets out to defend the works of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly ("L'Enfant terrible"), Ernest Hello ("Le Fou") and Paul Verlaine ("Le Lépreux"), which he believes are attacked and despised by their contemporaries and condemned by the Catholic Church. The author states in his preface: "Modern Catholics hate Art with a savage, atrocious, inexplicable hatred. Undoubtedly, this poor art is not much loved in contemporary society, and I exterminate myself repeating this. But happy exceptions, it seems, should be found in this lineage of the great incubator of intelligences, to whom the world is indebted for its most dazzling masterpieces" (p. 11). Copy by the poet Alfred Pouthier (1866-1946), including this autograph dispatch signed by the author on the first blank page: to Alfred Pouthier // Léon Bloy Pouthier became a close friend of Léon Bloy in the last years of the writer's life. This copy was probably given to him in the 1910s. Alfred Pouthier has transcribed onto the first white endpaper a letter Léon Bloy wrote on September 8, 1888 to the publisher Albert Savine about the work, in which he asked that the booklet be "enlarged": "Nothing would be easier for me than to multiply the paragraphs on the proof. I'd be able to do a lot of hunting & save at least ten pages. But above all, my work would become more readable, more artistic. He goes on to talk about his book Le Désespéré: "You're planning to have new covers printed. Why don't you have an errata & a key printed at the same time, which I'll give you?" There is a handwritten correction on page 38, and the copy is also enriched with a text by René Martineau entitled Bloy et Verlaine, taken from the November 15, 1922 issue of Les Marges. Missing tears to false title. Rousseurs. The cover is marked "Second Edition". Provenance: Alfred Pouthier, with consignment.

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BLOY (Léon). Un brelan d'excommuniés. Paris: Nouvelle librairie parisienne, Albert Savine, 1889. - In-12, 182 x 118: 128 pp, (2 ff. last blank), printed cover. Red half-percaline à la Bradel, smooth spine, cover preserved (period binding). Original edition not printed on large paper. In this book, Bloy sets out to defend the works of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly ("L'Enfant terrible"), Ernest Hello ("Le Fou") and Paul Verlaine ("Le Lépreux"), which he believes are attacked and despised by their contemporaries and condemned by the Catholic Church. The author states in his preface: "Modern Catholics hate Art with a savage, atrocious, inexplicable hatred. Undoubtedly, this poor art is not much loved in contemporary society, and I exterminate myself repeating this. But happy exceptions, it seems, should be found in this lineage of the great incubator of intelligences, to whom the world is indebted for its most dazzling masterpieces" (p. 11). Copy by the poet Alfred Pouthier (1866-1946), including this autograph dispatch signed by the author on the first blank page: to Alfred Pouthier // Léon Bloy Pouthier became a close friend of Léon Bloy in the last years of the writer's life. This copy was probably given to him in the 1910s. Alfred Pouthier has transcribed onto the first white endpaper a letter Léon Bloy wrote on September 8, 1888 to the publisher Albert Savine about the work, in which he asked that the booklet be "enlarged": "Nothing would be easier for me than to multiply the paragraphs on the proof. I'd be able to do a lot of hunting & save at least ten pages. But above all, my work would become more readable, more artistic. He goes on to talk about his book Le Désespéré: "You're planning to have new covers printed. Why don't you have an errata & a key printed at the same time, which I'll give you?" There is a handwritten correction on page 38, and the copy is also enriched with a text by René Martineau entitled Bloy et Verlaine, taken from the November 15, 1922 issue of Les Marges. Missing tears to false title. Rousseurs. The cover is marked "Second Edition". Provenance: Alfred Pouthier, with consignment.

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