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La Chanson des Gueux
19101720Paris: Edouard Pelletan 1910. Limited Edition. Near fine. Théophile Steinlen. 4to; 10 1/8 x7 3/4 inches 258 x 197 mm; half-title limitation title with publisher's device 366 pp including a glossary of slang Glossaire argotique 1 8 advertisements printed in black and red with additional colors for title page. 252 illustrations from works by Théophile Steinlen engraved by Ducourtioux. Full red morocco binding by Vautrin gilt stamped in dentelle; gilt fillets on covers raised bands with gilt titles and decorations in compartments wide gilt dentelles marbled endpapers t.e.g.; original paper boards bound in; minimal rubbing on bottom corners and edges internally clean and bright with a very faint water mark on bottom right corner not affecting texts or images firmly bound. <br /> Copy 218 of 340 numbered and signed by E. Pelletan on limitation page one of 267 copies on Marais Mills hand-made paper. <br /> <br /> Carteret IV 341; Crauzat 643. A very beautiful work by Jean Richepin 1849 - 1926 superbly illustrated by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen 1859-1923 in an elegant contemporary binding.<br /> Richepin was virtually unknown until the publication in 1876 of this volume of verse entitled La Chanson des Gueux a declaration of war against the bourgeoisie. Richepin's outspokenness resulted in his being imprisoned and fined for "outrage to morals." The collection was republished without the contentious pieces which were published separately in Brussels in 1881. The book is divided into several parts: 1°/ Beggars of the Fields; 2°/ Beggars of Paris; 3°/ We Other Beggars; Epilogue: The End of the Beggars. A slang glossary concludes the work. <br /> <br /> For this 1910 edition the illustrations were entrusted to the Swiss-born Steinlen who was politically engaged and often collaborated with anarchist and socialist press. "You will find Steinlen at the entrance to the construction site at the workshop door at the factory exit; he is everywhere where people gather on days of celebration riot or strike. . He succeeds in establishing the link which unites simple hearts in showing the intimate cohesion of the group of the theory of the collection; no one possesses to the same degree as Steinlen the gift and the power to make the shiver of a common anguish run through an assembly Roger Marx preface to "L'Oeuvre gravé et lithographié de Steinlen" Paris Société de Propagation des Livres d'Art 1913. Edouard Pelletan unknown
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