Histoire et légende de Marion de Lorme.
Paris: Aux bureaux de l'artiste, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover, Octavo. Contemporary full green buckram binder's cloth with gilt-stamped leather title label, and gilt-stamped fleuron and date to spine. Original wrappers bound-in (most French books of the period were issued in wrappers with the idea that the purchaser would have them bound to their choice as hardcovers.) (vi) + 99 (+1)pp. Frontispiece. Magnificent full-page presentation INSCRIPTION SIGNED by THE AUTHOR to
French author, writer, and journalist Charles Buet (1846-1897). FRENCH TEXT Joséphin Peladan's work on Marion de Lorme (c. 1613–1650), French courtesan, whose salon was for a time one of the most brilliant centres of elegant Parisian society. Joséphin Péladan (1858-1918) was a well-known French writer, Martinist and occultist, co-founder, in 1888, with Stanislas de Guaita, of the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Croix, which Péladan later left, founding and heading his own Ordre du Temple de la Rose + Croix, from which blossomed the important showcase for Symbolist art the Salon de la Rose + Croix. Bookplate of one Pierre Reboul on front pastedown - this was most likely Pierre Reboul (1918-1989), professor and later Dean of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lille. Covers a little darkened, cloth rubbed at head and tail of spine, some rubbing and a few chips to spine label. Internally bright and clean. A VG+ copy of a scarce edition, especially so when inscribed by the author. Item #72630
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