Lot 549
549
KHNOPFF -- LE ROY, G. Mon cœur pleure d'Autrefois… Paris, L. Vanier, 1889. 74, (2) pp. W. photo-engr. front. by F. Khnopff under tissue guard and 5 woodcut (?) vignettes by G. Minne (1 on front cover). 4°. Fine cont. purple mor. by G. Cornez, spine gilt & raised in compartments, inside dentelles, hand marbled endpapers, owrps. bound up, t.e.g. In hand marbled paper slipcase. (Spine slightly faded).
Grégoire Le Roy (1862-1941) was a member of the Ghent group of Belgian Symbolist writers whose name is often encountered in connection with Maeterlinck, Rodenbach and Verhaeren. His fin-de-siècle poetry was highly considered at the time of its first appearance, and was widely published in reviews. One of 169 numbered copies on Van Gelder. Fine copy, with manuscript dedication by the author.€ 200
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