SAMAIN Albert (1858-1900). Le Chariot d'or. Paris, Mercure de France, 1901; in-12, burgundy morocco, six gilt fillets framing the covers, ribbed spine decorated with the same fillets, caramel morocco lining with gilt fillets forming a scroll at the corners, red moire endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, yellow cover (E. & A. Maylander). Posthumous first edition. ☞ One of 9 copies on Japan paper, first paper (n° 3). Bound at the head and tail with 4 in-8 leaves: on the verso of the first is the draft of the elegy on page 15 amply corrected, very different from the printed version; on the second a handwritten sonnet entitled Hélène, published in the collection Au Jardin de l'Infante; the last two offer drafts of the poems Hécatombe and Peau de bête, pages 167 and 195. Luxurious lined binding bearing the bookplate of the Hayoit and Raoul Simonson collections (title absent from the two 2013 catalogues). 📖 Charles Hayoit Literary Library, V, no. 144.