Revue Anecdotique des excentricités contemporaines

First edition.
Half red shagreen, spine in six compartments with double blind-ruled compartments, double blindruled fillets to covers, top edge gilt, upper cover stained, one upper corner a little bumped, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, small lack to endpaper, ex libris laid down on verso of upper cover.
The first half-year of 1862, comprising several pre-first edition articles by Baudelaire which had appeared anonymously, including the famous "L'eau-Forte est à la mode" which served as the model for his article on Manet, "Peintres et aquafortistes".
A rare copy of this review published by Baudelaire's circle, established by Lorédan Larchey.