OEUVRES POSTHUMES. Portrait gravé sur bois

  • half-leather
  • Paris: Société du Mercure de France,, 1908
By BAUDELAIRE (Charles):

BAUDELAIRE (Charles):

OEUVRES POSTHUMES. Portrait gravé sur bois

Paris, Société du Mercure de France, 1908.

Large 8vo., 416 pp. (untrimmed); maroon half-leather, spine gilt lettered, original full yellow printed wrappers bound in place.

Portrait frontispiece (in two states: wood engraved and monochrome/bistre) from a photograph taken in 1865 by Charles Neyt.

Deluxe edition, including for the first time the articles of "Corsaire-Satan" and "Paris-Journal".

ONE of 87 COPIES (# 22) on Hollande papier, printed specially for Mm. Cumin & Masson.

Reference: Carteret, Trésor du bibliophile, 131; Talvart & Place, "Bibliography of modern French-language authors", I, 293.

A beautiful copy.


Details

Title

OEUVRES POSTHUMES. Portrait gravé sur bois

Author

BAUDELAIRE (Charles):

Binding

half-leather

Condition

Unknown

Publisher

Société du Mercure de France,: Paris

Date

1908

Size

Large 8vo.,

Pages

416 pp.


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