RODENBACH, Georges. Le Règne du Silence. - Lot 282

RODENBACH, Georges. Le Règne du Silence. Published in Paris by Bibliothèque-Charpentier in 1891. In-12 format. Beige half-maroquin with corners, spine with cold-pinched false nerves, title, author and date inlaid, silvered headband, cover preserved (René Wiener). 236 pp, 3 ff (table). Rubbing, a few chips and browning to leather. Some foxing, mainly in the margins. First edition of this collection by Belgian symbolist poet Georges Rodenbach (1855-1898). It contains 6 parts, one of which, here restored before the last poem, had appeared in 1888 under the title "Du silence"; the other five appear for the first time. The work consists of long poems divided into several sections, with the exception of the last poem, consisting of an eight-note and two quatrains, entitled "Epilogue". The whole work evokes nostalgia for the poet's native province of Bruges. Handwritten bookplate of French poet Charles Guérin (1873-1907) on the front cover. A pleasant copy in a binding by René Wiener (1855-1939). Provenance: Charles Guérin by descent.