L'ÉLAN Monthly magazine N° 1, February 1885-N° 2, March 1885. Liège, Founder : Albert Mockel. Limited edition of 100 copies. Becomes L'Élan littéraire : L'ÉLAN LITTÉRAIRE Monthly review 1st year : n° 3, April 1885-n° 12, January 1886 ; 2nd year : n° 1, February 15, 1886-n° 4, May 15, 1886. Liège. Limited edition of 200 copies. Texts by G. Balsamo, Fritz Ell, Léon Gheur, Auguste Jottrand, Alexandre Macedonski, Albert Mockel, Fernand Severin, A. Thos, Ch. Van Halmé, etc. Both titles bound together. Complete collection. 16 numbers in 16 issues in 1 vol. in-8 (preserved covers inserted at the end of the volume). Handwritten notes by Vasseur (3 ff.). Joint :- 1 L.A.S.from Iwan Gilkin to Paul Verlaine (n.d.) ; - 1 visiting card from Noël Richard with 10 autographed lines to André Vasseur (1970) ; - Newspaper clippings ; - Various autographed notes from Vasseur. Becomes La Wallonie : LA WALLONIE Monthly review of literature and art 1st year: n° 1, June 15, 1886-n° 6, November 15, 1886; 2nd year: n° 1, January 15, 1887-n° 11, December 20, 1887; 3rd year: n° 1, January 31, 1888-n° 11, December 31, 1888; 4th year: No. 1, January 31, 1889-No. 12, December 1889; 5th year: No. 1, January 1890-No. 11, November 1890; 6th year: No. 1, December 1890/January 1891-No. 12, December 1891; 7th (and final) year: No. 1/2, January-February 1892-No. 9/12 (no date). Liège. Publisher : H. Vaillant-Carmanne, Founder : Albert Mockel. Texts of Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules Bois, Paul Bourget, Eugène Demolder, Émile Desombiaux, Max Elskamp, André Fontainas, René Ghil, André Gide, André Goffin, J.-M. de Heredia, A.-F. Herold, G. Knopff, Bernard Lazare, Camille Lemonnier, Pierre Louÿs, Maurice Maeterlinck, Stéphane Mallarmé, Stuart Merrill, Albert Mockel, Jean Moréas, Charles Morice, Pierre Quillard, Hugues Rebell, Alphonse Retté, Georges Rodenbach, Sully Prudhomme, Paul Valéry, Charles Vanderberghe, Émile Verhaeren, Paul Verlaine, Francis Vielé-Griffin. Complete collection. 75 numbers in 60 issues in 4 vol. in-12 bound (covers preserved). Handwritten notes by Vasseur (1 f.). Jointly: - The general Table of contents published in Brussels in 1961; - In Memory: album with 4 plates under cover of La Wallonie. "Encouraged by Mallarmé, honored with some letters by Heredia and Verlaine, La Wallonie published the first poems of André Gide, Paul Valéry, Henri de Régnier and Pierre Louÿs. [...] It defended the impressionists and, in music, César Franck. [...] The capital role played by this review in the development of Belgian and French letters was underlined by Remy de Gourmont (Les Petites Revues, Mercure de France, 1900)." Extract from the catalog of the Coulet-Faure bookshop (n° 70, June 1961).