VERLAINE PAUL-CONSEIL - SIGNED AUTOGRAPH SONNETS - Lot 213

VERLAINE PAUL-CONSEIL - SIGNED AUTOGRAPH SONNETS Conseil, May 1895, For Louis Dorbon. A signed autograph sonnet and a draft of “Conseil” signed by Verlaine. Consists of 2 folios in-8. Original cover, hand-colored with flowers and Verlaine’s profile, signed by Valéry. Author’s EAS to Dorbon on the first folio. Printed transcription of the sonnet. Contained in an 8vo volume bound in red half-shagreen with Bradel corners. Slight wear to the binding. Included in the volume are several loose documents: a printed menu illustrated by F.A. Cazals depicting a full-length portrait of Verlaine at the Paul Verlaine banquet at the Palais d’Orléans in Paris on May 28, 1911, and two letters to Louis Dorbon from the 1950s regarding Verlaine, including a curious and perhaps previously unpublished anecdote about Verlaine and Cazals, as well as an old handwritten note regarding the origin of the sonnet excerpted from Verlaine, *Oeuvres Poétiques*, published by Gallimard. A beautiful, illustrated, and engraved bookplate from the Louis Dorbon Bookstore on the inside front cover, signed by the famous H. Somm. Precious and rare documents.