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Charles BAUDELAIRE

Les paradis artificiels, opium et haschisch

Poulet-Malassis & de Broise, Paris 1860, 12x18cm, relié.

Edition on current paper, it was shot only 4 China and some major papers in Holland. Bound in half chocolate sheepskin back past five bands, marbled paper plates, contemporary binding. Precious and rare shipment of Charles Baudelaire, on the half-title page, at (François) Buloz, founder and editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes in which appeared in pre-first edition, 18 poems of Les Fleurs du mal. This bold and controversial issue was a Literaire event that prompted Baudelaire to publish his first book of poems. However, aware of Brulot he offered to readers in a magazine that was not customary due, Buloz did precede a singular notes: "By publishing poetry that will read, we believe show again how much more the spirit in our favor testing, attempts, in the most diverse directions. Which seems here earn interest, it is the bright and curious expansion, even in its violence, some failures, some moral sufferings, that without the share or discuss them, we must take to be known as one of the signs of our time. It seems, moreover, that there are cases where advertising is not only an incentive where it can have the influence of a helpful hint and call the real talent to emerge, to grow stronger, expanding his ways, expanding their horizons. " Half-title page shaded, slightly edging copy head, copy almost free of freckles and quite complete catalog of the editor-in fine. Very rare copy with a handwritten dedication by the author with an important provenance.

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