Edmond Deman

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

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.

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.

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

Publications

 * 1888
 * Émile Verhaeren, Les soirs, with a frontispiece by Odilon Redon and four vignettes by Fernand Khnopff, printed by Veuve Monnom
 * Edgar Allan Poe, Poèmes, translated by Stephane Mallarmé
 * Émile Verhaeren, Les débâcles


 * 1890
 * Iwan Gilkin, La Damnation de l'artiste


 * 1891
 * Jules Destrée, L'oeuvre lithographique de Odilon Redon
 * Stephane Mallarmé, Pages
 * Émile Verhaeren, Les flambeaux noirs


 * 1892
 * Iwan Gilkin, Ténèbres


 * 1893
 * Émile Verhaeren, Les campagnes hallucinées


 * 1894
 * Maurice Maeterlinck, Alladine et Palomides, Interieur, et La mort de Tintagiles: trois petits drames pour marionnettes


 * 1895
 * Émile Verhaeren, Les villes tentaculaires


 * 1896
 * Émile Verhaeren, Les heures claires


 * 1897
 * Gustave Kahn, Limbes de lumières, illustrated by Georges Lemmen
 * Camille Lemonnier, Alphonse Wauters, and Armand Heins, Le Palais de la ville de Bruxelles à l'Exposition universelle de 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


 * 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
 * Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Le rideau cramoisi, illustrated by Armand Rassenfosse


 * 1908
 * Fernand Crommelynck, Le sculpteur de masques


 * 1912
 * Thomas Braun, Fumée d'Ardenne, with a cover by Georges Lemmen