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Charles BAUDELAIRE

Les fleurs du mal

Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, Paris 1857, 12x19,5cm, relié.

BAUDELAIRE Charles
Les Fleurs du Mal[The Flowers of Evil]
Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, Paris 1857, 12 x 19,5 cm, full black morocco
First edition, first issue, printed on vélin d'Angoulême paper, complete with the six suppressed pieces and the fault “Feurs du Mal” on pp. 31 and 108, as well as the pagination error on p. 45 (marked 44); with the very rare first or second state of the cover (cf. Clouzot).
Bound in full black morocco, spine in six compartments with triple blind-ruled frames, gilt date at foot, gilt at head, quintuple blind-ruled border on covers, gilt fillet to edges, broad gilt lace and double gilt fillets inside cover, marbled endpapers, wrappers and spine preserved, all edges gilt – a very elegant binding by Devauchelle.
A little light occasional foxing, principally on the two contents leaves.
The first and most significant volume of poetry by Baudelaire, the work was in part censored after publication for its “offensiveness to public, religious and moral values.” The 200 or so unsold copies were seized and had six poems cut out. A fundamental work of modern poetry, The Flowers of Evil prefigured the work of Lautréamont, Rimbaud, Verlaine and Mallarmé.
A superb copy in a perfect 20th century Jansenist binding.
$ 37 500

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