Facsimile manuscript from the collection "Les Manuscrits des Maîtres", in 4to, unpaginated, including the famous portrait of the author by Fantin-Latour as frontispiece printed on Chine. This edition reproducing in facsimile 41 of the early poems of Rimbaud, composed between the age of 14 and 17, collected by the poet's sister Isabelle and her husband, Pierre Eugène Dufour, known here under his pseudonym of PATERNE BERRICHON, and who provided the manuscripts to the publisher Albert MESSEIN. Not having the rights to produce the texts, he instead published them in this facsimile edition, in a small run of 545 examples including 25 on Japon. Our example, numbered 397, is one of the 520 on ordinary paper. In the original wrappers, nicely bound in blue marbled boards, half gilt-stamped morocco.