MERRILL Stuart (1863-1915). Prose and verse, posthumous works. Paris, Messein, 1925; in-12 half olive morocco with corners, spine ribbed, gilt head, cover (P. Goy). Preface by André Fontainas. ☞ One of 10 head copies printed on Chine, this one bearing No. 1. Enclosed: Les Quatre Saisons, poems. Paris, Mercure de France, 1900; in-12, royal blue half-chagrin, gilt fillet, smooth spine decorated throughout, gilt head, cover (E. D... binder's signature illegible). First edition. ☞ Copy on publisher's paper enriched with a letter to Édouard Ducôté, also a poet of the Symbolist movement. Attached: a letter from Stuart Merrill to the same (4 pp. in-12) circa 1900 in which he apologises for not being able to supply poems to the journal l'Ermitage. Une Voix dans la foule, poems. Paris, Mercure de France, 1909; in-12, cherry half-maroquin with corners, ribbed spine, gilt head, cover (Patrice Goy). ☞ One of 12 first copies printed on Hollande paper, the only large paper. Bound at the head: a letter from Stuart Merrill to the director of the Mercure de France (Alfred Vallette) dated 7 April 1892, 2 pp. in-8.