SAMAIN (Albert). Aux Flancs du vase. Paris : Edition of the Mercure de France, 1898. - In-4, 316 x 230: (2 ff. first blank), 112 pp. (2 ff. last blank), printed covers. Dark blue half-maroquin, smooth spine, untrimmed, covers preserved (V. Champs). First edition of this collection of poems by Albert Samain. One of the twenty copies reprinted in-4 on tinted vellum of Rives for the company "Les XX", under double cover. Beautiful copy bound at the time by Victor Champs. Slight cut at the bottom of the spine and at the two lower corners. Provenance : Albert Natural, with bookplate. (Bergé sale, December 8, 2009, n° 571). - J. C. D., with bookplate.