Oeuvres de Charles Baudelaire.

BAUDELAIRE, Charles.

$1,250.00

Item Number: 94702

Paris: Club de Livre, 1985.

The Club de Livre deluxe limited illustrated edition of the works of Charles Baudelaire. Quartos, 3 volumes, bound in full violet elaborate fuschia and black inlay designs to the panels, black endpapers, top edge gilt, with original lithographic illustrations in color in each volume. Each volume is numbered and signed by its respective artist on the colophon. In fine condition. Each volume housed in the original morocco and silk slipcase.

French poet Charles Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced an entire generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé, among many others. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, and rapidly industrializing Paris during the mid-19th century.