Description: Charles Baudelaire Les fleurs du mal, Petits poèmes en prose, Les paradis artificiels. Translated and introduced by Arthur Symons.Published by The Casanova Society, London, 1925. First edition.Octavo. Original publisher‘s black partially leather. No dust jacket. Frontispiece facsimile of ''La Charogne''. Limited edition of 1000 copies this is one of 213 and specially bound in full vellum. On the front pastedown is the pictorial bookplate of Geo. Fair/ acceptable condition considering the age. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, age tanning. Overall a good condition item. Boards have shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping on boards. Heavy chipping with loss a part of spine. Please, see photographs for further confirmation of condition! Translator Arthur Symons was the editor of The Savoy, "the principal avant-garde periodical of the 1890s," and a champion of symbolism, publishing in 1900 his landmark study The Symbolist Movement in Literature.
Price: 550.18 GBP
Location: London
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Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Leather
Place of Publication: London
Non-Fiction Subject: Literature, Poetry & Criticism
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Limited Edition
Fiction Subject: Classic Literature
Author: Chales Baudelaire
Publisher: The Casanova Society
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1925
