TAGORE, Rabindranath. L'offrande lyrique.
Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1914.

In-4 (221 x 173 mm), cover and spine preserved, XXIII-147 pp., (1) f.
Red morocco with band of black paper spotted in gold, first cover decorated with centrifugal circles placed symmetrically on the spine and band, second cover with a wider band of black paper, smooth spine, author, date and title gilt, gilt head, endpapers and flyleaves of the same black paper spotted in gold, slipcase lined (Paul Bonet).

First edition of the French translation with an introduction by André Gide.
The translation alone was published the previous year by the same publisher, with errors corrected in the present edition.

One of 50 copies on Arches laid paper (no. 16), elegantly bound by Paul Bonet - probably one of the bookbinder's earliest works.

Rabindranath Tagore, nicknamed the ‘Master of the Sun’ by Romain Rolland, was the first non-Western writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1913). He aroused immediate interest in European intellectual circles. His poetry, marked by great formal clarity and singular spiritual depth, quickly attracted the attention of Gide, who was to play a decisive role as a bridge-builder.

From the library of Raoul Simonson (1896-1965), a Belgian bookseller and publisher active in the 1920s-1960s and André Gide's first bibliographer.