Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires. Paris, Michel Lévy, 1857. In-12, half maroon morocco with corners, gilt head (R. Vernier).
First edition of Baudelaire's translation.
Copy of Mallarmé, bearing on the false title his signature with the date 11 May 1858.
Mallarmé was 16 years old at the time, so this volume is a precious testimony of his early taste for the two poets he admired all his life: Baudelaire and particularly Edgar Poe, whose poems he translated in 1888 and in whose honor he wrote the very famous Tombeau on the occasion of the erection in Baltimore of a monument in honor of the poet: As in Himself eternity changes Him, the Poet arouses with a naked sword His century appalled at not having known that death triumphed in that strange voice...
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