VERS ET PROSE De'fense et illustration de la Haute litte'rature et du lyrisme en prose et en poe'sie N° 1, March 1905-N° 36, January-March 1914. Became Vers et prose 2e série in 1928. Director: Paul Fort, Editor-in-chief: André Salmon. Texts by Guillaume Apollinaire, René Arcos, Henri Bachelin, Maurice Barrès, Henry Bataille, Nicolas Beauduin, Jules Bois, Robert Browning, Marguerite Burnat-Provins, Francis Carco, Paul Claudel, Jacques Copeau, Léon Deubel, Léon Dierx, Fernand Divoire, Léon-Paul Fargue, Paul Fort, Anatole France, Paul Gauguin, Stefan George, André Gide, Mécislas Golberg, Remy de Gourmont, Paul Husson, Georges Izambard, Alfred Jarry, Omar Khayyâm, Jules Laforgue, Comte de Lautréamont, Pierre Louÿs, Maurice Maeterlinck, Stéphane Mallarmé, Fillipo Tomaso Marinetti, Charles Maurras, Alexandre Mercereau, Jean Metzinger, Éphraïm Mikhaël, Albert Mockel, Eugène Montfort, Robert de Montesquiou, John-Antoine Nau, Rachilde, Henri de Régnier, Jules Renard, Jean Richepin, Arthur Rimbaud, Henri-Pierre Roché, Georges Rodenbach, Saint-Pol Roux, André Salmon, Marcel Schwob, Robert-Louis Stevenson, André Suarès, Charles-Algernon Swinburne, Paul-Jean Toulet, Paul Valéry, Léon Vérane, Émile Verhaeren, Paul Verlaine, Francis Vielé-Griffin, Oscar Wilde, W.-B. Yeats, Stefan Zweig, etc. Complete collection. 36 issues in 33 in-8 paperbacks in 8 slipcases: one of 45 ex. on Hollande for the first 28 issues (27 fascicules), ordinary print run for the last 8 issues (6 fascicules). Handwritten notes by Vasseur (11 ff.). Includes: - 2 fascicles published at the end of the 1st and 2nd years, giving tables of contents; - 1 fascicle of 12 p. giving the names of subscribers as of 15/12/1905; - 2 appeals to subscribers; - 3 L.A.S. from Paul Fort to Léo Roussel (1906, 1911) in which Vers et Prose is discussed; - 2 L.A.S. from Guy Lavaud (1908). from Guy Lavaud (1908) about the magazine; - 5 visiting cards from Paul Fort with a few autographed lines; - 2 invitation cards to Vers et Prose re'unions; - 7 invitations to the "Di^ner des quatorze" addressed to Léo Roussel; - Banquet menu offered to Han Ryner (November 10, 1912); - 2 L.A.S. from Han Ryner (1912) concerning the magazine; - 1 press clipping concerning Charles Morice; - 1 original photograph of Louis Le Cardonnel. Exceptional set.