 After a brief introduction citing the original edition published in 1914 by Librairie Gallimard, the book starts with the entire poem written as a block of text which is rectangular if the type of Mallarme's poem is 'regular' and oblique if the type from Mallarme is italic.12 double spreads follow, with immaculately laid out black shapes standing in for the text.The work is soft bound and feels quite insubstantial.