BAUDELAIRE, Charles.
Complete works. Paris, J. Claye for Michel Lévy frères, 1868- 1870. 7 volumes in-12 (173 x 108 mm) of a portrait engraved by Nargeot, 2 ff.n.ch., 411 pp.
for volume I; 2 ff.n.ch., 440 pp. for Volume II; 2 ff.n.ch., 442 pp. for Volume III; 2 ff.n.ch., 471 pp. for Volume IV; 2 ff.n.ch., 523 pp. for Volume V; 2 ff.n.ch., 544 pp. for Volume VI; 2 ff.n.ch., 517 pp., 1 f.n.ch. (table) for Volume VII; brown half sorrow, dishes decorated with cold frames, back with nerves, speckled slices (editor's binding).
Clouzot, 46.
Original edition.
First edition of Baudelaire's Works.
"[Edition] extremely important. More and more sought-after, and rightly so, it includes in its first edition: some of the Flowers of Evil, the Little Prose Poems, the Aesthetic Curiosities (except the two salons), the Romantic Art (except Gautier and Wagner)" (Clouzot).
Copy that belonged to Edmond Lepelletier, journalist, poet and childhood friend of Verlaine. (1846-1913) with a pencil autograph note on the false title of volumes II-III: "April 1869. Edmond Lepelletier, 40 r. de la Tour d'Auvergne".
Yellowed paper; some binder wear and tear and small stains.
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