Mallarmé’s Masterwork: New Findings
Greer Cohn Robert, Mallarmé’s Masterwork: New Findings (California: Stanford University Press, 1966).
Robert Greer Cohn
Mallarmé’s Masterwork: New Findings
California: Stanford University Press, 1966

Robert Greer Cohn in this book publishes facsimiles of The Lahure Proofs: Stéphane Mallarmé, Un coup de Dés j’amais n’abolira le Hasard, 1898, including three of four lithographs by Odilon Redon intended for this publication, and housed in Houghton Library, Harvard.

Cohn proposes a close inspection of ‘The Lahure Proofs’ to support the thesis of a large format version exceeding the dimensions of the NRF edition of Un Coup de Dés. Cohn notes: "The poet’s intentions could only be shown in print since “the type” is an integral part of the enterprise; in a sense he composed his poem on these sheets. Moreover, the text is modified in a few places, with indications in the poet’s handwriting." (p. 78)

A digital folio of the of the Lahure proofs is available at: https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:434952194$1i