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Charles BAUDELAIRE

Les Fleurs du Mal

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1868, 12x18cm, relié.

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1868, 12x18cm, half shagreen. 
Third edition, partly original, expanded with 25 poems, along with a lengthy introduction by the poet Théophile Gautier and several articles and letters by Barbey d'Aurevilly, Dulamon, Sainte-Beuve, Charles Asselineau, Custine, Edouard Thierry et Émile Deschamps selected by Baudelaire.
With a steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by Nargeot.
One of the rare first issue copies with the correct date of 1868 on the title and without statement of edition.
This comprehensive edition contains 25 unpublished poems, totaling 151 poems (100 poems in the 1857 edition). Among the new poems, eleven are from Les Épaves.
Although wished and prepared by the author himself, this last edition was assembled and edited by Banville and Asselineau. The copy Baudelaire had “prepared for the third edition of Les Fleurs du Mal” mentioned in Poulet-Malassis' correspondence has since been lost. It is impossible to know if his faithful friends respected the architecture and the author's poem selection. Most of the new poems were subsequently placed at the end of Spleen et Idéal, between the poems “Sympathetic Horror” and “Self-Tormentor”.
Contemporary red half shagreen binding, one corner slightly worn. Almost no foxing throughout.
This last edition was used as the first volume of Baudelaire's complete works, as stated “œuvres complètes” on the half-title page. Les Fleurs du Mal was also sold separately, given the several years it took to publish all seven volumes of the complete works.
“Very rare in a contemporary binding without a volume label on the spine” (Clouzot).
Handsome copy set in an elegant contemporary binding.

 

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