Fernand KHNOPFF. "La Poésie de Stéphane Mallarmé," [À la nue accablante tu], April-May 1895; 1 f. gr. in-4 on glazed vellum. Cover and proof. In its cover from Pan's 1st issue of April-May 1895, the emblematic head of Franz von Stuck's satyr on p. 1 and Joseph Stattler's woodcut on p. 4 (the latter browned). Magnificent autotype by Khnopff, known under other titles (Tendresse, En écoutant des fleurs), accompanying the "Sonnet de Stéphane Mallarmé": À la nue accablante tu autographed and monogrammed. Famous Berlin magazine by O.J. Bierbaum and J. Meier-Graefe, with its Paris branch, which at the same time co-publishes L'Épreuve littéraire, Pan's French supplement. Mallarmé wrote to his director and great translator Henri Albert on February 24, 1895, after reconstructing the sonnet from memory: "Then it will appear, complementary to Khnopff's drawing, very well, there is room for a pretty page. Everything depends on the art with which the sonnet is placed, well in its blank. I even isolate it by putting the epigraphic indications at the top, somewhere, close to the illustration and very small [they will not appear there]. Let's give up the autograph, the verse always benefits from being printed [what about his Poésies of 1887!] - in slightly strong characters or with a definitive appearance: as for the monogram, it remains to be seen, according to the ensemble, whether it should be reproduced or not." (Marchal Corr. 2325).