Le parnasse contemporain, recueil de vers nouveaux, première série

Rare first edition of the first series of Le Parnasse contemporain featuring works by thirty-seven poets, most of them previously unpublished, issued in 18 parts.

The fifth part, devoted entirely to Charles Baudelaire, contains the first appearance in print of several poems from his Nouvelles fleurs du mal: Epigraphe pour un livre condamné - Madrigal triste - L'avertisseur - Le rebelle - Bien loin d'ici - Recueillement - Le gouffre - Les plaintes d'un Icare, together with some of the poems also published in the Epaves.
The collection also includes the earliest works of Stéphane Mallarmé: "Les fenêtres - Le sonneur - A celle qui est tranquille - Vere novo - L'azur - Les Fleurs - Soupir - A un pauvre", and of Paul Verlaine, who had not yet published a single volume: "Vers dorés - Dans les bois - Il bacio - Cauchemar - Sub urbe - Marine - Mon rêve familier". Further contributors include Théodore de Banville, Théophile Gautier, José Maria de Heredia, Leconte de Lisle, Anatole France, Louis Ménard, Catulle Mendès, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Charles Cros, Léon Dierx...
Minor, insignificant tears to head and foot of spine, cattered foxing throughout.