Edmond Deman

Edmond Deman (1857–1918) was a publisher, antiquarian bookseller and prints dealer in fin-de-siècle Brussels.[1]

Life

Deman was born in Brussels on 26 March 1857. He studied at the Catholic University of Leuven, where he became friends with Émile Verhaeren and edited a student newspaper together with members of the circle that went on to found La Jeune Belgique. In 1880 he married Constance Horwath and together they set up as antiquarian bookdealers in Brussels.[1]

From 1888 onwards, Deman used a logo designed for him by Fernand Khnopff in his catalogues. He also published a relatively small number of bibliophile editions, mainly of leading poets with illustrations by leading artists, particularly Émile Verhaeren and Théo van Rysselberghe.[1]

During the First World War he took refuge in his holiday home at Le Lavandou. He died there on 19 February 1918.[1]

Publications

1888
1890
1891
  • Jules Destrée, L'oeuvre lithographique de Odilon Redon
  • Stephane Mallarmé, Pages
  • Émile Verhaeren, Les flambeaux noirs
1892
  • Iwan Gilkin, Ténèbres
1893
1894
  • Maurice Maeterlinck, Alladine et Palomides, Interieur, et La mort de Tintagiles: trois petits drames pour marionnettes[2]
1895
1896
  • Émile Verhaeren, Les heures claires
1897
1898
  • Léon Bloy, Mendiant ingrat
  • Émile Verhaeren, Les aubes
1899
  • Stephane Mallarmé, Poésies
  • Émile Verhaeren, Les visages de la vie
  • Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Histoires souveraines, with ornaments by Théo van Rysselberghe[4]
1900
  • Émile Verhaeren, Le cloître
  • Émile Verhaeren, Petites légendes
1901
  • Eugène Demolder, Constantin Meunier
  • Eugène Demolder, Trois contemporains: Henri de Brakeleer, Constantin Meunier, Félicien Rops
1904
  • Émile Verhaeren, Les Tendresses premières, illustrated by Théo van Rysselberghe
1905
  • Émile Verhaeren, Les heures d'après-midi
1907
1908
1912
  • Thomas Braun, Fumée d'Ardenne, with a cover by Georges Lemmen

Further reading

  • Adrienne and Luc Fontainas, Edmond Deman Éditeur (1857-1918): Art et édition au tournant du siècle (Brussels, Labor, 1997)

References

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