LA JEUNE REVUE LITTÉRAIRE - Lot 136

LA JEUNE REVUE LITTÉRAIRE Published on the 15th of each month No. 1, December 1880-No. 12, November 15, 1881. Brussels, Librairie universelle de J. Rozez, Founder: Albert Bauwens. Texts (signed with initials or pseudonyms) by Albert Grésil [Albert Bauwens], Jules Delecourt, Viator [Aimé Hubert], Louis Hymans, Théophile [Franz Mahutte], Georges-Henri [Henri Nizet], Albert Orth, Sylvius [Maurice Sulzberger], Max Waller, Asmodée [Victor Wittmann], etc. Complete collection. 12 issues in 12 deliveries in 1 vol. in-8 bound. Becomes La Jeune Belgique: LA JEUNE BELGIQUE Revue hebdomadaire d'Art et de Critique 1st series: no. 1, December 1, 1881-no. 11/12, November-December 1895; 2nd series: no. 1, January 18, 1896-no. 52, December 25, 1897. Brussels Liège Ghent. Founders: Albert Bauwens and Max Waller, Director: Albert Grésil [Albert Bauwens], then Max Waller. Texts by Francis de Croisset, O.-G. Destrée, Georges Eekhoud, Iwan Gilkin, Valère Gille, Albert Giraud, Arnold Goffin, Camille Lemonnier, Francis Marcel, Francis Melvil, Charles Mettange, Albert Orth, Georges Rodenbach, Fernand Severin, etc. Handwritten notes by Vasseur (20 ff.). Attached: - At the end of volume 1 of the 2nd series: - The issue of Hommes d'aujourd'hui devoted to J.-K. Huysmans; - 1 extract from Nouvelle revue internationale (July 1, 1894), containing the article "Le mouvement littéraire en Belgique"; - 1 x 4 p. extract from Nouvelle revue internationale; - 1 x 2 p. extract from Nouvelle revue internationale; - No. 45 (November 5, 1893) containing the article on the Eckhoud banquet; - 1 x 4 p. extract from L'Art moderne (November 1893) containing the article by François de Nion: "Le mouvement littéraire en Belgique". Bound in 1 separate in-4 vol.: - A series of 17 articles from the Belgian periodical Collections, signed M. J. Hachelle (the bibliophile Leclercq). This file forms a 26 p. set tracing the history of La Jeune Belgique up to its 11th year (1891). These articles appeared in Collections from 1935 to 1939; - 5 p. of clippings from La Gazette (November 23 and 27, 1937). The article is entitled: "Les débuts littéraires de Charles Magnette, sa collaboration et ses déboires à La Jeune Belgique"; -1 ex. of Journal des Tribunaux, no. 2650 (Supplément) of 1913: "À la mémoire de Camille Lemonnier"; - La Revue Belge (Tome I, no. 2, January 15, 1929), containing an article by Paul Vigné-d'Octon: "Léon Cladel et les "Jeune Belgique""; - 1 article by Gaston Picard from Mercure de France (April 1, 1935): "Léon Cladel et la Belgique"; - 1 booklet by Joseph Hanse: "La Jeune France" and "La Jeune Belgique" (Bruxelles, Palais des Académies, 1957), with a signed autograph dispatch to Claude Pichois; - The booklet giving the general tables of contents of La Jeune Revue littéraire and La Jeune Belgique (Bruxelles, 1964, 150 p.).There is also a book by Paul André: Max Waller et la Jeune Belgique, Collection de la revue d'art, Le Thyrse, 1905. The 1st series contains 167 issues in 7 bound in-8 volumes; the covers are not bound in the 7 volumes: they have been collected (134 out of 167) in 1 separately bound volume... The 2nd series contains 102 issues in 102 deliveries bound in 2 in-4 volumes; each volume includes the general covers and there are a few covers of bound issues at the end (5 in all). PARNASSE DE LA JEUNE BELGIQUE Paris, Léon Vanier éditeur, 1887. Edited by Iwan Gilkin, Albert Giraud and Max Waller. Limited edition of 529 copies, one of 500 on wove paper (no. 396) after 4 on Japon imperial paper and 25 on Hollande Van Gelder. 1 copy, large in-8 paperback, 306 pp. Texts by Émile van Arenbergh, Paul Berlier, André Fontainas, Georges Garnir, Iwan Gilkin, Valère Gille, Octave Gillion, Albert Giraud, Théodore Hannon, Paul Lamber, Charles van Lerberghe, Grégoire Le Roy, Maurice Maeterlinck, Léon Montenaeken, Fernand Severin, Lucien Solvay, Hélène Swarth, Max Waller. Together, these three titles form an absolutely complete collection of this precious Belgian magazine known as Jeune Belgique. Such a set is extremely rare.