Gustave Doré. Original large engraved wood.

Gustave Doré. Grand bois gravé. Münchhausen.

  Gustave Doré (1832-1883). [Ils amenèrent d’abord le domestique.] Original engraved wood signed ” G Doré ” for one of the 31 full-page plates of Aventures du baron de Münchhausen. Traduction nouvelle par Théophile Gautier fils, illustrées par Gustave Doré. […]

Victor Hugo. Love and Death.

Hugo. L'Amour et la Mort.

  I. The plaster hand of Juliette Drouet, the love of his life. [Charles Simon Pradier (1783-1847), Swiss engraver]. Moulding of Juliette Drouet’s hand. Plaster. around 1826. Dimensions 25 x 10 x 5 cm. With handwritten mention in ink on […]

Stéphane Mallarmé. Poetry is music above all.

Mallarmé. Lettre autographe inédite

  Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), frensh poet. Autograph letter signed “Stéphane Mallarmé “, Paris, 29 th April 1888, to “Monsieur ” [Ernest Lefeuve]. 4 pp. in-12 watermarked paper “Original stair’s mill ».      Very beautiful unpublished letter in which the poet expresses his conception of […]