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Le Spleen de Paris
Author
Charles Baudelaire, woodcuts by Louis Bouquet
Publisher
Enseigne du Pot Cassé, Paris, 1925
Printing Details
Limited edition (No 870 of 1950). Hardback, rebound in half-leather with gilt titling and date, and five raised bands to the spine, marbled paper covered boards. Original covers and spine retained and bound in. 18.5 x 12cm, 195pp. French text.
About the Book
A collection of fifty short prose poems by Charles Baudelaire, where Baudelaire uses the word spleen to describe the misery, dissatisfaction, mundanity, melancholy of life, and illustrated throughout with woodcuts by Louis Bouquet. This title was first published posthumously in 1869, and many themes from his Les Fleurs du Mal are revisited.
Condition
A good copy. There is a small area of loss to the leather at the head of the spine, and the front joint is rubbed and starting to weaken (but still well-attached). The main body of text is clean and in strong readable condition.
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