*Stéphane MALLARMÉ. Le Scapin. Deuxième série. Paris, 1886; 9 fasc. in 1 vol. pet. in-12 bradel papier marbré, smooth spine, title page, cons. cover, untrimmed (contemporary binding). Second complete series of this spirited little magazine published in 9 issues from September 1, no. 1 to December 3, 1886, no. 9. Director E. G. Raymond, who founded La Décadence the same year; secretary Alfred Vallette. "M. Stéphane Mallarmé seems to me to be the most astonishing of these artists. All his works - so few in number! - have a marvelous logic allied to a superior poetic power. The verse is as flowery as a shepherd's crook, as lascivious as a naked faun, as pyramidal as Edgar Poë's tomb, as white as a swan's candor. Each poem is a musical drama like Wagner's dramas, and perfectly expressive in its unity of Life, which is certainly the supreme goal to attain" (La Décadence, opening of the 1st issue, signed VIR). Numerous contributors: Cladel, Ghil, Le Cardonnel Lorrain, Merrill, Rachilde, Régnier, Jules Renard, Samain, Vallette, Verlaine... Three poems by Mallarmé: - Le [later: Un] Spectacle interrompu, prose poem, no. 1, September 1, 1886. - Cette nuit, n° 3, October 16: "Quand l'ombre menaça de la fatale loi" .... - Apparition, no. 4, November 1 [see 90]. Spine fragile, covers a little faded. Provenance: Ex-Libris Catel engraved by the delightful Henri Boutet. - Bibliothèque [Bernard Loliée], Binoche et Giquello, Sotheby's, 9/10/2018, no. 224.