Remy de GOURMONT (1858-1915). Autograph manuscript signed "R.G.", Enquêtes et Curiosités, [March 1892]; 3pages small in-4, mounted on Arches paper and bound in red half-maroquin with corners (Canape). Announces the creation of a new column in the Mercure de France, to serve as a forum for readers' questions on the arts, letters, history and anecdote.... "To these little inquiries will be attached notes or short discussions, - answers without questions - on such subjects as may be of interest to scholars or the curious"... He himself submits a bibliographical question and publishes a note on what he believes to be the oldest document in French on Shakespeare (1693). Attached is a signed autograph manuscript of Epilogues: Hellénisme. - Les Histoires Sand. - L'anecdote Gorguet. - La Réforme de l'orthographe. - L'union fait la force (8pages and a quarter in-8, on the back of L'Ymagier flyers).
Estimate
€300 - €400
Result
€422
Buyer's premium
32%
Remy de GOURMONT (1858-1915). Autograph manuscript signed "R.G.", Enquêtes et Curiosités, [March 1892]; 3pages small in-4, mounted on Arches paper and bound in red half-maroquin with corners (Canape).
Announces the creation of a new column in the Mercure de France, to serve as a forum for readers' questions on the arts, letters, history and anecdote.... "To these little inquiries will be attached notes or short discussions, - answers without questions - on such subjects as may be of interest to scholars or the curious"... He himself submits a bibliographical question and publishes a note on what he believes to be the oldest document in French on Shakespeare (1693).
Attached is a signed autograph manuscript of Epilogues: Hellénisme. - Les Histoires Sand. - L'anecdote Gorguet. - La Réforme de l'orthographe. - L'union fait la force (8pages and a quarter in-8, on the back of L'Ymagier flyers).
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