VICAIRE (Gabriel). Bresse enamels. - Lot 301

VICAIRE (Gabriel). Bresse enamels. Precious copy bound by Vermorel, enriched with an autograph poem signed by the author, two pages in-8, entitled "Le Feu Follet", corresponding to the text printed on page 259 of the collection. Paris, Librairie Henri Leclerc, 1904. In-8 volume (190x141mm). Blue morocco, spine ribbed, gilt title, stylized decoration of foliage and holly fruits in mosaic green, brown and red morocco on the endpapers, moiré silk endpapers with colored motifs. Covers and spine preserved. Bordered cardboard slipcase. (Binding signed VERMOREL). (2 ff.), 288 pp. (2 ff. last blank). New edition of this fine collection of poems about Bresse by Gabriel Vicaire, published in 1884 as a "transparent homage to Théophile Gautier's Émaux et Camées (1852). "Vicaire's poems are like so many jewels set in a collection celebrating the land of his ancestors, its customs, its landscapes, a simple Bresse happiness". An unsigned autograph letter, dated April 15, 1859, is enclosed: Monsieur de Montalembert [Charles de, 1810-1870] has the honor of sending Monsieur Gabriel Vicaire, whom he absolutely ignores, the address of ...? With whom he has unfortunately had no relations since December 1857". A very fine copy.