| Wagner's influence on literary and artistic avant-garde |
Complete collection in 36 issues (including three double issues) bound in three volumes - First year: 12 issues, from 8 February 1885 to 6 January 1886 - Second year: 12 issues, from 8 February 1886 to 15 January 1887 - Third year: 12 issues, from February 1887 to January 1888.
Illustrated with 4 full-page lithographs by Fantin-Latour:
L'Évocation d'Erda - Odilon Redon :
Brünnhilde - Jacques-Emile Blanche :
Tristan et Isolde and
Le pur-simple.
Three quarter brown morocco binding, smooth spine titled in gilt, marbled paper boards, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, orignal wrappers preserved, binding signed by Dupré.
Numerous contributions from some of the most prominent writers, critics, poets and musicians of the late 19th-century, including Wagner himself: Charles and Pierre Bonnier, Jules de Brayer, Alfred Ernst, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Fourcaud, René Ghil, Stuart Merrill, Stéphane Mallarmé, Catulle Mendès, Éphraïm Mikhael, Pierre Quillard, Jean Richepin, Émile Hennequin, Charles Vignier, Charles Morice, Paul Verlaine, Villiers de l'Ilse Adam, Teodor de Wyzewa, Stewart Chamberlain, Gerard de Nerval (Souvenirs sur Lohengrin), Jean Ajalbert, Gabriel Mourey, Adolphe Jullien, Tola Dorian, Swinburne, Evenepoel, Franz Liszt...
A very valuable complete collection of this avant-garde journal, both literary and aimed at presenting Wagner's works through a new aesthetic.