Charles BAUDELAIRE Lot n° 287

The Flowers of Evil. Paris, Ambroise Vollard, 1916. 2 volumes in-4, Havana calf, the first plates mosaic and incised with on each of them a naked woman in a tinted frame with flowers and leaves, on the second plates resumed framing and reminder of foliate motifs, back with 4 double ribs with incised motifs, inner frame of the same calf with nets and incised motifs, lining and guards of moiré flesh reps, gilt heads, cover and back, case (Normand). Monod, I-1070 /// I. (6f.)-314-(1f.) / II. (4f.)-317 to 543-(1f.). Second edition illustrated by Émile Bernard, containing 36 woodcut illustrations, glued full-page, and numerous figures in the text. Edition of 250 copies, this one one of the 200 on Arches wove paper (n°190). Attractive copy, pleasantly bound by Normand. Pale stains on a few pages and on the second cover.