Albert Glatigny. Sa bibliographie
One of the first 10 copies on China paper.
With an added manuscript leaf giving the collation of “Vers les saules,” omitted by Poulet-Malassis.
Born in Lillebonne in 1839, educated at the collège de Bernay and briefly a gendarme, Albert Glatigny then became a compositor at Pont-Audemer in the workshop of Alfred Canel, a lawyer who owned the town’s leading weekly newspaper. Canel quickly noticed the young man’s literary gifts and encouraged him to write: a first work, Les Bourgeois de Pont-Audemer au XVIIe siècle, was printed by Canel in a handful of copies (only one copy is known today).
Passing through Alençon, Glatigny met Poulet-Malassis, who gave him a freshly printed collection of verse by Théodore de Banville, Les Odes funambulesques. It was a revelation, and Glatigny became an “admirable versifier and forger of rhythms,” following Banville’s model — to whom he dedicated his first book, Les Vignes folles, in 1860.
From the Delafosse library.