L'Ymagier. One vol. in-4 [205 x 265] containing 4 issues out of 8, from no. 1, October 1894, to no. 4, July 1895. Texts by R. de Gourmont, A. Jarry, H. Monachus, Rutebeuf. Containing, among others, plates by Armand Seguin (Bretonnes, woodcut, Field, Strauss and Wagstaff 70), Douanier Rousseau (La Guerre, zincography, normal vertical folds) as well as plates by Jarry, G. d'Espagnat, Delcourt, Whistler... and subjects from imagerie d'Épinal, filled in (sometimes damaged). Leaves slightly oxidized at edges. Covers and spines preserved. Half calf, 5-rib spine with gilt title, marbled paper boards (slightly faded). Joint: 6 plates published in the magazine, by or after Gauguin, R. de Gourmont, Jarry, L. Roy. Limited to 515 copies, this short-lived quarterly review was founded and edited by Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry. It was sponsored by Gourmont's friend and inspiration Berthe de Courrières, and financed by Jarry, who had just inherited the company. Jarry collaborated on the first five issues before falling out with Gourmont and founding his own magazine, Perhinderion. L'Ymagier aimed to renew the art of woodcutting through a return to primitive or folk art: "Images, and nothing more, religious or legendary, with just enough words to convey their meaning and convince the inattentive with a notion. Images first carved in wood, that material for idols, matrix of such good will; in metal, extending by a century the series of emblematic dreams." (R. de Gourmont, n° 1). The magazine is illustrated with a number of original prints (including La Guerre, the only print by Douanier Rousseau, in issue no. 2) and reproductions of antique woodcuts (after Cranach, Dürer, etc.), as well as large-scale Epinal images printed on the original woodcuts.