Baudelaire Charles / Mauplot Jean - Les fleurs du mal - 1946
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Charles Baudelaire and Jean Mauplot’s Les Fleurs du Mal, Athêna edition (1946), numbered 1149 of 2000, with a frontispiece and 10 colour illustrations, 316 pages, bound in a dark brown half-leather with gilt title on the spine, in very good condition.
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Charles Baudelaire / Jean Mauplot - Les Fleurs du Mal - Athena Editions - 1946
This luxurious illustrated edition, published shortly after World War II, was limited to 2,000 copies, this copy numbered 1149.
The work includes a frontispiece and 10 color plates hors-texte by Jean Mauplot.
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) is a major 19th-century poet whose poetry marks the transition between Romanticism and Symbolism. His life was defined by an incessant search for the ideal in the face of the “spleen” of modern existence and by a legal condemnation for outraging public morality at the time of the first publication of the collection. This book was written throughout his adult life as an attempt to extract beauty from perversion and from Parisian suffering.
Jean Mauplot (1896-1961) was a French illustrator and painter active in the first half of the 20th century, particularly renowned for his work in luxury editions.
This poetry collection explores the duality of the human soul, torn between the aspiration toward the divine and the lure of vice and decline.
The binding is a brown half-chagrin binding with corner pieces of the period, and a spine with raised bands bearing the gold title, in very good condition.
316 pages
Charles Baudelaire / Jean Mauplot - Les Fleurs du Mal - Athena Editions - 1946
This luxurious illustrated edition, published shortly after World War II, was limited to 2,000 copies, this copy numbered 1149.
The work includes a frontispiece and 10 color plates hors-texte by Jean Mauplot.
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) is a major 19th-century poet whose poetry marks the transition between Romanticism and Symbolism. His life was defined by an incessant search for the ideal in the face of the “spleen” of modern existence and by a legal condemnation for outraging public morality at the time of the first publication of the collection. This book was written throughout his adult life as an attempt to extract beauty from perversion and from Parisian suffering.
Jean Mauplot (1896-1961) was a French illustrator and painter active in the first half of the 20th century, particularly renowned for his work in luxury editions.
This poetry collection explores the duality of the human soul, torn between the aspiration toward the divine and the lure of vice and decline.
The binding is a brown half-chagrin binding with corner pieces of the period, and a spine with raised bands bearing the gold title, in very good condition.
316 pages
Details
Number of books
1
Subject
Illustrated, Literature, Poetry
Book title
Les fleurs du mal
Author/ Illustrator
Baudelaire Charles / Mauplot Jean
Condition
Very good
Publication year oldest item
1946
Edition
1st Edition Thus, Illustrated Edition, Numbered edition
Language
French
Original language
Yes
Number of pages
316
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