A complete run in six issues of the French music and poetry journal. Square octavo (8 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches). Original illustrated wrappers with vellum overlays, housed in custom archival case with clear window. Light toning and soiling to wrappers, minor chipping and edgewear, light rusting around staples, overall very good condition. Paris: À la Belle Édition, 1909-1911. Five of the six issues marked first edition, one marked second edition.

A complete collection in six issues of the music and poetry journal edited by Jean Cocteau and Françoise Bernouard. Cocteau was only 20 years old when the first issue was published, and Bernouard would go on to become a celebrated publisher and typographer who published nearly 300 works over about 40 years.


Among the earliest deluxe periodicals in the French tradition of fashionable magazines, Schéhérazade contained literary and poetical contributions from such luminaries as Apollinaire, Stephane Mallarmé, Natalie Barney, Alain Fournier, Jane Catulle Mendès, Michel de Gramont, Guy-Robert du Costal, Maurice Magre, Charles Perrot, Abel Bonnard, Henri Vouvelet, and Edmond Rostand, among many others, along with musical scores by Massent and Raynaldo Hahn, and articles on Turkish literature, Kees Van Dongen, Renée Vivien, and Paul Poiret. The journal also contains Cocteau's earliest published story, "Comment Mourut Monsieur de Trèves." The issues are illustrated throughout with drawings by Pierre Bonnard, Charles Guérin, Paul Iribe, Marcel Chotin, Louis Sue, Luc-Albert Moreau, Marie Laurencin, and others.

An important and scarce French periodical; as of July 2024, OCLC locates scattered holdings in North America but very few complete runs.

Book ID: 53248

Price: $6,500.00