THE YOUNG LITERARY REVIEW Appearing on the 15th of each month N° 1, December 1880-N° 12, November 15, 1881. Brussels, Librairie universelle de J. Rozez, Founder : Albert Bauwens. Texts (signed with initials or pseudonyms) of Albert Grésil [Albert Bauwens], Jules Delecourt, Viator [Aimé Hubert], Louis Hymans, Théophile [Franz Mahutte], Georges-Henri [Henri Nizet], Albert Orth, Sylvius [Maurice Sulzberger], Max Waller, Asmodée [Victor Wittmann], etc. Complete collection. 12 numbers in 12 issues in 1 vol. in-8 bound. Becomes La Jeune Belgique : LA JEUNE BELGIQUE Weekly review of Art and Criticism 1st series: n° 1, December 1, 1881-n° 11/12, November-December 1895; 2nd series: n° 1, January 18, 1896-n° 52, December 25, 1897. Brussels Liège Ghent. Founders: Albert Bauwens and Max Waller, Director: Albert Grésil [Albert Bauwens], then Max Waller. Texts of Francis de Croisset, O.-G. Destrée, Georges Eekhoud, Iwan Gilkin, Valère Gille, Albert Giraud, Arnold Goffin, Camille Lemonnier, Francis Marcel, Francis Melvil, Charles Mettange, Albert Orth, Georges Rodenbach, Fernand Severin, etc Handwritten notes by Vasseur (20 ff.). Joined : - At the end of volume 1 of the 2nd series : - The n° of Hommes d'aujourd'hui dedicated to J.-K. Huysmans ; - 1 extract of the Nouvelle revue internationale (July 1, 1894), containing the article " Le mouvement littéraire en Belgique " ; - 1 extract of 4 p. of the Nouvelle revue internationale ; - 1 extract of 2 p. of the Nouvelle revue internationale ; - The n° 45 (November 5, 1893) containing the article on the Eckhoud banquet ; - 1 extract of 4 p. of L'Art moderne (November 1893) containing the article by François de Nion : " Le mouvement littéraire en Belgique ". Bound in 1 vol. in-4 apart: - A series of 17 articles taken from the Belgian periodical: Collections, signed M. J. Hachelle (the bibliophile Leclercq). This file forms a set of 26 p. tracing the history of La Jeune Belgique until its 11th year (1891). These articles appeared in Collections from 1935 to 1939; - 5 p. of clippings from the feuilleton of La Gazette (23 and 27 November 1937). The article is entitled: " Les débuts littéraires de Charles Magnette, sa collaboration et ses déboires à La Jeune Belgique "; -1 ex. of the Journal des Tribunaux, n° 2650 (Supplement) of 1913: " À la mémoire de Camille Lemonnier "; - La Revue Belge (Tome I, n° 2, January 15, 1929), containing an article by Paul Vigné-d'Octon: " Léon Cladel et les "Jeune Belgique" "; - 1 article by Gaston Picard from Mercure de France (April 1, 1935): "Léon Cladel et la Belgique"; - 1 booklet by Joseph Hanse: "La Jeune France" and "La Jeune Belgique" (Brussels, Palais des Académies, 1957), with an autograph shipment signed to Claude Pichois; - The booklet giving the general tables of contents of La Jeune Revue littéraire and La Jeune Belgique (Brussels, 1964, 150 pp.).There is also a book by Paul André: Max Waller et la Jeune Belgique, Collection de la revue d'art, Le Thyrse, 1905. The 1st series contains 167 issues in 7 volumes in-8 bound; the covers are not bound in the 7 volumes: they were gathered (134 out of 167) in 1 volume bound separately.The 2nd series contains 102 issues in 102 deliveries bound in 2 volumes in-4; each volume contains the general covers and one finds at the end some covers of bound issues (5 in all). PARNASSE DE LA JEUNE BELGIQUE Paris, Léon Vanier publisher, 1887. Under the literary direction of Iwan Gilkin, Albert Giraud and Max Waller. Limited edition of 529 copies, one of 500 on vellum paper (n° 396) after 4 on imperial paper of Japan and 25 on Hollande Van Gelder. 1 copy large in-8 paperback of 306 p.Texts by Émile van Arenbergh, Paul Berlier, André Fontainas, Georges Garnir, Iwan Gilkin, Valère Gille, Octave Gillion, Albert Giraud, Théodore Hannon, Paul Lamber, Charles van Lerberghe, Grégoire Le Roy, Maurice Maeterlinck, Léon Montenaeken, Fernand Severin, Lucien Solvay, Hélène Swarth, Max Waller. The set of these three titles forms an absolutely complete collection of this precious Belgian magazine known as Jeune Belgique. Such a set is extremely rare.