Christie's (Paris)

(27 cm), 207 (1) pp., illustrations (most in colour). 255 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Collection of manuscripts, first editions, sets of proofs, photographs and letters, of the major Symbolist poets. The manuscript (lot 246) of Stéphane Mallarmé’s “Contes Indiens” (1893) realised €361,500. Cf. Christian Galantaris, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé: catalogue raisonné d’une collection (Paris: Editions des Cendres, 2000). ¶ Unmarked copy.