[The Flowers of Evil] Les Fleurs du mal
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- Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857
Bound in full brown morocco with matching marbled-sided slipcase lined in brown morocco by Rene Lieffer, with original second state pale yellow wraps with rear wrap announcing Les Fleurs du Mal bound in. Extra-illustrated with 12 later plates bound in between the title page and first chapter. The extra plates include etchings, engravings, and photographic plates; two of them are illustrations of the "flowers," prepared for later editions. A majority of the remaining plates are portraits of Baudelaire, designed by himself, Manet, Courbet and others. pp. [7], 6-248, [4] + 12 pp. of plates. Near Fine with light foxing to textblock edge and lightly and sporadically throughout. Bookseller ticket to front free endpaper, and with several modern inscriptions to preliminary blanks from recent owners. Light rubbing to binding and slipcase. A beautiful and grangerized copy.
Baudelaire's masterpiece and most famous work, a book of lyric poetry expressing the changing nature of beauty in the rapidly industrializing Paris during the mid-19th century. An enormously influential collection of poems famously dubbed a "frisson nouveau" (a "shock" or "shudder" or "thrill" of the new) by Victor Hugo, condemned by French authorities, and held up by the Symbolists and their descendants as one of the first stirrings of literary modernism.
Details
Title
[The Flowers of Evil] Les Fleurs du mal
Author
Baudelaire, Charles
Condition
Near Fine
Publisher
Poulet-Malassis et de Broise: Paris
Date
1857
Edition
First Edition