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Les Fleurs du Mal

by BAUDELAIRE Charles

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Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1868. Fine. Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1868, 12x18cm, relié. - Troisième édition en partie originale car enrichie de 25 poèmes, précédée d'une longue notice de Théophile Gautier et suivie d'un appendice comportant des articles et lettres de 1857, réunies par Baudelaire à titre de « testimonia », par Barbey d'Aurevilly, Dulamon, Sainte-Beuve, Charles Asselineau, Custine, Edouard Thierry et Emile Deschamps. Ouvrage illustré, en frontispice, d'un portrait sur acier de Charles Baudelaire par Nargeot. Un des rares exemplaires de première émission avec le titre à la bonne date de 1868 et sans mention d'édition. Cette édition définitive totalise à présent 151 poèmes, contre 100 pour l'édition de 1857 et 129 pour la seconde. Parmi les nouveaux poèmes, 11 sont issus des Epaves. Bien que désirée et préparée par Charles Baudelaire, cette dernière édition sera réalisée et mise en forme par Théodore de Banville et Charles Asselineau. L'exemplaire que Baudelaire avait « préparé pour la troisième édition des Fleurs du mal » et qu'évoque Poulet-Malassis dans sa correspondance, ayant été perdu, il n'est pas possible de savoir si ses fidèles amis respectèrent l'architecture et le choix des poèmes de l'auteur. Ainsi, les nouveaux poèmes ont été, dans leur grande majorité, insérés à la fin de la section Spleen et Idéal entre les poèmes Horreur Sympathique et L'Héautontimorouménos. Reliure en demi chagrin rouge, dos à quatre nerfs de filets et doubles caissons estampés à froid, plats de papiers à la cuve, un coin légèrement émoussé, toutes tranches peignées, reliure de l'époque. Exemplaire quasiment sans rousseur. Cette ultime édition constitue également le premier tome des Œuvres Complètes du poète, comme l'indique la page de faux-titre. Il était cependant vendu séparément, la parution des sept volumes de l'édition complète s'étalant sur plusieurs années. Clouzot précise toutefois : ""Très rare en reliure d'époque sans tomaison au dos"". Très bel exemplaire en élégante reliure du temps. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1868, 12x18cm, half shagreen. Third edition, partly original, expanded with 25 poems, along with a lengthy introduction by the poet Théophile Gautier and several articles and letters by Barbey d'Aurevilly, Dulamon, Sainte-Beuve, Charles Asselineau, Custine, Edouard Thierry et Émile Deschamps selected by Baudelaire. With a steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by Nargeot. One of the rare first issue copies with the correct date of 1868 on the title and without statement of edition. This comprehensive edition contains 25 unpublished poems, totaling 151 poems (100 poems in the 1857 edition). Among the new poems, eleven are from Les Épaves. Although wished and prepared by the author himself, this last edition was assembled and edited by Banville and Asselineau. The copy Baudelaire had ""prepared for the third edition of Les Fleurs du Mal"" mentioned in Poulet-Malassis' correspondence has since been lost. It is impossible to know if his faithful friends respected the architecture and the author's poem selection. Most of the new poems were subsequently placed at the end of Spleen et Idéal, between the poems ""Sympathetic Horror"" and ""Self-Tormentor"". Contemporary red half shagreen binding, one corner slightly worn. Almost no foxing throughout. This last edition was used as the first volume of Baudelaire's complete works, as stated ""œuvres complètes"" on the half-title page. Les Fleurs du Mal was also sold separately, given the several years it took to publish all seven volumes of the complete works. ""Very rare in a contemporary binding without a volume label on the spine"" (Clouzot). Handsome copy set in an elegant contemporary binding.

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On Oct 13 2010, ElectricEel said:
So much has been written about these poems - and about this book as a cycle - that the only further help on the subject which I can offer to my fellow readers is a quotation from one of my teachers: "The Twentieth Century began in 1857." He didn't explain, and he didn't have to.

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Title
Les Fleurs du Mal
Author
BAUDELAIRE Charles
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Publisher
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Date Published
1868
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