Les Vignes Folles; Poesies, avec une frontispiece de Charles Voillemot, Gravé à l'eau-forte par Bracquemond
Paris: Librairie Nouvelle, 1860. 8vo, frontispiece, 175pp; half-morocco and marbled boards. Very slight shelf rubbing; fine. Item #204260
First edition of the poet's first book, published at the age of 20, in a handsome 19th-century binding. A presentation copy, inscribed in pencil on the half-title: "à Monsieur de Morny, respecteux hommage Albert Glatigny." In addition, the poet has made marginal corrections to the text in pencil on five pages. The recipient, Charles de Morny (1811-1865) was a politician, natural son of Queen Hortense de Beauharnais (of Holland), grandson of Talleyrand, and half-brother of Napoleon III. Glatigny himself bears the distinction of having later introduced fellow-poet Paul Verlaine to the use of absinthe.
Price: $750.00