Oeuvres complètes : Les Fleurs du Mal - Curiosités esthétiques - L'art romantique - Petits Poèmes en prose - Histoires extraordinaires - Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires - Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym. Eurêka

Œuvres complètes with an autograph letter:
Les Fleurs du Mal – Curiosités esthétiques – L'Art romantique – Petits Poèmes en prose – Histoires extraordinaires – Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires – Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym
“Extremely important” edition according to Clouzot: “More and more sought after, rightly so, it includes in first edition: part of Fleurs du Mal, Petits Poèmes en prose, Curiosités esthétiques (except the two Salons), L'Art romantique (except Gautier and Wagner).”
The Fleurs du Mal is in its third edition (the last version revised by the author) in part original with the correct date of 1868. Twenty-five poems from Fleurs du Mal are published here for the first time.

Volume 1: Les Fleurs du Mal, volume 2: Curiosités esthétiques, volume 3: L'Art romantique, volume 4: Petits Poèmes en prose, volume 5: Histoires extraordinaires, volume 6: Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires et volume 7: Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym.

Half burgundy shagreen, spine in five compartments decorated with gilt fleurons, marbled paper plates, caillouté marbled endpapers, contemporary bindings.

A very evocative letter quoting each work in progress from Charles Baudelaire signed “C. B.” addressed to Auguste Poulet-Malassis has been mounted on the guards at the beginning of Fleurs du Mal. Four pages written in pencil on a double sheet dated 13 June 1859. This letter has been published in Les Lettres (Mercure de France, 1906). Baudelaire wrote to his publisher from Honfleur, where he had been with his mother since April 1859. She reserved two attic rooms in her house for her son and the proximity to the sea seems conducive to work: ”You will tell me what you think of my Salon. And of my Gautier? In a short while, I will be able to deliver your Opium et Haschisch, and shortly thereafter, Curiosités complètes, which will be followed by Nouvelles Fleurs.” The poet must work tirelessly to pay off his Parisian debts and in particular those contracted with the recipient of this letter: ”Can I go to Paris without fear? Without worry? I am referring to the bill of 430 (430?). You would quarrel with De Broise, if you had a protest, and if I have one here, my mother would fling me out the door. However, I want to use the good work arrangement where I am until the end of the year.”

Rare and precious complete set in uniform contemporary binding of the famous first edition of his works. Preceded by Théophile Gautier's beautiful foreword paying tribute to his “impeccable” disciple enriched with a beautiful handwritten letter in which the Albatros talks of his works.