Trois églises

LIMITED DRAW  to 260 numbered copies, this one of 180 on vellum, at all margins. It is enriched by an important original colour pencil drawing by Charles Jouas entitled "Quartier Saint Merry, Escalier 83, rue de la verrerie", dated 1913 and signed by him, bound at the beginning of the book, attached, apart from: - 4 autograph letters signed by Charles Jouas, dated from 1 December 1939 to 16 March 1940, all addressed to the same amateur, a doctor in the Orne, seeking follow-up illustrations of the artist, to be attached to his copy of Trois églises. We learn in particular that the amateur's letter was "carefully directed" by Mr. Giraud-Badin, in Cayeux-sur-Mer where he "is a refugee this winter, having young children to protect". He also mentioned a copy of Les Méandres de Focillon, which he illustrated, and of which he waited for the bound copy to decorate the dishes.- An autograph note signed by Joris-Karl Huysmans, with the letterhead of the Ministry of the Interior, in which he thanked a dear friend. This is one of the articles mentioned by Octave Uzanne in his article "Un suprême dégouté", dedicated to Huysmans, "réaliste-mystique", published for the 17th anniversary of the writer's death (Une du Figaro, Supplément littéraire, May 12, 1924): "Ah ! His intimate epitres, his least notes that I often review are [...] documentaries in excess ! Most end with short formulas depicting his depressions. He quotes the end of our post: "And what? What a dull and bland weather and still Paris stinks! "A handwritten graphological study, of about fifteen lines, signed by Édouard de Rougemont, on the character of Huysmans according to his writing. Édouard de Rougemont, author of books on graphology, had published his Commentaries on Charles Baudelaire in 1922.

PRECIOUS SET, CONTAINING AN ORIGINAL DRAWING OF JOUAS CHARLES AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS OF THE SAME AND HUYSMANS. Small rubbing on the spine, the unsigned binding, is probably Kieffer. (Carteret, IV, p. 213: "One of the best books by Jouas".).