Albert Glatigny. Sa bibliographie

Name: Albert Glatigny. Sa bibliographie
SKU: 27944
Price: 480 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: [GLATIGNY] Jules Claretie

Paris, J. Baur, 1875.

1 vol. (130 x 205 mm) of 1 leaf, frontispiece, 26 p., [1] and 1 leaf. Blue morocco, gilt title lengthwise, wide lace border on doublures, double fillet on edges, gilt edges, wrappers preserved (binding signed by Marcellin Lortic).

First edition, illustrated with a portrait etched by Frédéric Regamey.

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.

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