[COCTEAU, Jean, and François BERNOUARD, editors].

Schéhérazade, Album Mensuel d'œuvres inédites d'art et de littérature.

Paris, La Belle Édition, 10 November [1909] – 15 March 1911. 6 numbers (all published) bound in onevolume, 4to; with one full-page lithograph (some offsetting from the preceding wrapper) and numerous illustrations in the text; 12 pp. of printed music; titles printed in red and black; a small inscription erased from the title in the first number, heading and page numbers shaved to pp. xliv/xlv and p. xxxiv in the second; still a fine copy, uncut in later marbled paper wrappers, the original illustrated wrappers to each number (edges slightly spotted) bound in. A complete run of Cocteau’s Schéhérazade, one of the earliest deluxe periodicals devoted to poetry and music. Cocteau was only 20 when the first number came out; his co-founder, the publisher François Bernouard, was 25.‘Schéhérazade is a beautiful little magazine. Printed on fine paper by François Bernouard, who was to become celebrated as a publisher of handsome books, with the artist Paul Iribe’s lovely naked Sultana (a gallicized Beardsley vamp) reclining on each cover, the five issues (or six, depending on how one interprets a rather confused system of numbering: the magazine died what Maurice Rostand called “a beautiful death” with the number dated March 15, 1911) contain some of Dunoyer de Segonzac’s sketches of Isadora Duncan, drawings by Bonnard, Marie Laurencin, André Mare and Luc-Albert Moreau, poems by Natalie Barney, Maurice and Edmond Rostand, as well as by Cocteau, and Cocteau’s first printed story, an amusing Venetian trifle called “Comment mourut Monsieur de Trèves” … There are musical scores by Massenet and Reynaldo Hahn, articles on Van Dongen and on Paul Poiret. What has become known as the Poiret style – late Belle Epoque-Art Nouveau – permeates the magazine …’ (Francis Steegmuller, Cocteau, p. 46).Other contributors include Paul Adam, Gabriele d’Annunzio, Guillaume Apollinaire, Nicolas Beauduin, Abel Bonnard, Ricciotto Canudo, Francis Carco, Henry Charpentier, Francis de Croisset, Rémy de Gourmont, Fernand Gregh, Sacha Guitry, Emile Henriot, Gérard d’Houville, Francis Jammes, Stéphane Mallarmé, Victor Margueritte, Georges de Porto-Riche, Henri de Régnier, Valentine de Saint-Point, André Salmon, Marcelle Tinayre, and Jean-Louis Vaudoyer.Five of the six numbers here are marked ‘1ere Édition’. These were reserved for subscribers.Roméo Arbour, Les revues littéraires éphémères paraissant à Paris entre 1900 et 1914, 138.

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