Henri de Regnier - Les rencontres de Monsieur de Bréot

Paris: Société Littéraire de France, 1922. Limited edition of 1250 numbered copies. Here, one of the 1200 copies on Lafuma vellum, decorated with orange compositions, inset, by Félicien Cacan.

 A fine copy of a novel by this admirer of Mallarmé, who hovered between Verlaine and Valéry, Parnasse and symbolism in his poetry, 

Régnier (1864 - 1936) was married to Marie de Hérédia, a writer in her own right and daughter of Parnassian poet José-Maria de Hérédiapublishing under the pen name Gérard d'Houville. He was a prolific writer, and member of 'Le Clubs des Longues Moustaches' whose members met to smoke cigars in Venetian cafe Florian.