« I am all for – no illustration », writes Mallarmé, formulating the idea – « Je suis pour – aucune illustration » in such a way as to both exclude illustration and subsume it within the book. This paper focuses on the « fugue » between images and text in the Ambroise Vollard edition – an edition which has stayed a phantom – of Mallarmé’s Un coup de dés (A cast of dice) as illustrated by Redon : the blacks of the lithographs were to have echoed the whites of the typography ; the forms being formed that Redon sought at the roots of the Unconscious were to have answered the « mobility of the written form » catalysed by the unfolding of the volume ; so that the poem’s abstraction was to have been referred back to a lost figurative source : at the place where, in the transfer of art, a mysterious child is uncovered, « mute », forever « shut up » and addressed as« thou » (tu in French is both the familiar form of address and the past participle of the verb taire, to shup up or keep silent). The result is a new « partition » of the arts, both reunited and separated under the aegis of Poetry and in the play of the Book.