SAMAIN Albert (1858-1900). Aux flancs du vase. Paris, Mercure de France, 1903; in-12, bradel calf binding marbled in shades of green and brown, moire lining and endpapers in the same tones, gilt edges on witnesses, double endpapers, yellow cover. Partly first edition, posthumous, containing the unfinished poems. ☞ One of 5 copies of the first edition on Japanese paper (No. 3). Ex-libris Fernand Jousselin, historian, founder of Livre d'Art, prefacer of the manual by Olivier, Hermal and Roton. A very fine copy; the unsigned binding is characteristic of a rare material used by Charles Meunier.