{"product_id":"rameau-jean-pseudonym-for-laurent-labaigt-ary-gambard-illustrator-poemes-fantasques","title":"RAMEAU, Jean (pseudonym for: Laurent LABAIGT); Ary GAMBARD (illustrator). Poèmes Fantasques.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eIn a Macabre Binding\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRAMEAU, Jean (pseudonym for: Laurent LABAIGT); Ary GAMBARD (illustrator).\u003c\/strong\u003e Poèmes Fantasques. [\u003ci\u003eEvreux: Charles Hérissey for\u003c\/i\u003e] \u003ci\u003eParis: Ed. Monnier \u0026amp; Cie\u003c\/i\u003e. 1883.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary half morocco with marbled sides, ruled in black, raised bands, spine lettered directly in black and with skull-and-crossbones tools in black, top-edge gilt, the others uncut, marbled endpapers, tricolour silk place-marker; pp. [6], 114, [2]; illustrated title lettered in red and black; muted duotone illustrations to start of each poem and in the text; light dampstaining to spine, corners lightly rubbed; lightly toned throughout, variable spotting (heavier to first few ff.); contemporary bookplate showing two figures in profile to front pastedown; a very good copy; signed by the publisher to limitation leaf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, signed by the publisher, no. 114 of 400 copies on Holland paper from a total limitation of 500 copies, of these fourteen macabre poems, our copy in a suitably spooky binding.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabaigt (1858–1942) assumed the pseudonym of Jean Rameau shortly before moving from Gascony to Paris, where he wrote over fifty novels and seven collections of poetry; this is apparently his first collection of verse, with numerous eerie illustrations: a bookish mouse reads whilst trapped inside a spiderweb, a gnarled tree consumes one of its own limbs, and a crowd forms as a silhouetted figure is taken to the guillotine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVicaire II, p. 953.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2125783\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65052311191929,"sku":"2125783","price":750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2125783.jpg?v=1793380525","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/rameau-jean-pseudonym-for-laurent-labaigt-ary-gambard-illustrator-poemes-fantasques","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}