79 - [JARRY (Alfred)]. — LANIER (Ed.). Autograph letter signed in his capacity as director of the Paul Lemaire printing house, addressed to ALFRED JARRY. Paris, May 19, 1896. One folio-sized page, with the printing house’s printed letterhead; a few crossed-out calculations and marginal pen sketches; one margin slightly dusty with a few creases.

[JARRY (Alfred)]. — LANIER (Ed.). Autograph letter signed in his capacity as director of the Paul Lemaire printing house, addressed to ALFRED JARRY. Paris, May 19, 1896. One folio-sized page, with the printing house’s printed letterhead; a few crossed-out calculations and marginal pen sketches; one margin slightly dusty with a few creases. QUOTE FOR THE PRINTING OF *UBU ROI* ON BEHALF OF THE AUTHOR. “I am pleased to provide you below with the prices you were kind enough to request from me for the printing of *Ubu Roi*, a composition excerpted from *Le Livre d’art*. In-18 Jésus format, 3 sheets and a cover. For 600 copies – 0 ff. 30 cent. per copy For 1,000 " – 0 ff. 30 cent[imes] per copy. Please accept, Sir, my warmest regards...” One of the calculations added and subsequently crossed out in the margin gives the total amount in centimes to be paid for 600 copies. *Ubu Roi* had appeared in a pre-first edition on April 25, 1896, in Paul Fort’s magazine *Le Livre d’art*, printed at Paul Lemaire’s press. The first edition would ultimately be printed in June 1896 by Charles Renaudie for *Le Mercure de France*, and it is likely that Alfred Jarry made this choice for typographical reasons, given his keen attention to such matters—he had, for example, commissioned a special typeface for his own magazine, *Perhinderion*.