Le Spleen de Paris : petits poèmes en prose

Baudelaire, Charles

Le Spleen de Paris : petits poèmes en prose

Édition revue sur les textes originaux, accompagnée de notes et de variantes et publiée par Ad. van Bever ; avec deux portraits de l'auteur

París ; Zúrich

Georges Crès et Cie

E. Arrault et Cie, Tours

1917

Paris ; Zurich : Georges Crès et Cie, 1917

French

Twelfth edition

Petits poèmes en prose

A further 110 copies were printed on laid paper from the Voiron mills (10 not for sale), numbered 1 to 100 and 101 to 110

284 p.

Two portraits of the author

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18,5 × 12 cm

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Wove paper

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Roman type; text in continuous lines; printing completed 24 July 1917

Paper lightly yellowed

Cloth binding

Cloth over boards

Maroon, with gilt fillets and lettering on the spine

Plain boards; gilt fillets on the spine; initials «A. G.» stamped in gilt at the foot of the front board

Smooth spine divided by gilt fillets; «BAUDELAIRE / LE SPLEEN DE PARIS» in gilt

Cloth lightly rubbed at head- and tail-caps and edges; text block firm

Baudelaire's Petits poèmes en prose, gathered under the title Le Spleen de Paris, in the edition revised against the original texts and published by Ad. van Bever, with notes and variants. It opens with the dedication «À Arsène Houssaye» and gathers the book's key pieces —«L'Étranger», «Le Confiteor de l'artiste», «Chacun sa chimère», «Le Fou et la Vénus»…—, together with an appendix of poems. It includes an editor's note on the establishment of the text.

Baudelaire's prose poems in Ad. van Bever's edition (Georges Crès et Cie, Paris and Zurich, 1917), twelfth edition, printed in Tours by E. Arrault. It reproduces the 1913 edition in the series «Les Maîtres du Livre», established from the 1868 original. With two portraits of the author. Cloth binding with the initials «A. G.» of Alfred Gallart and his autograph signature. From his library.

French literature

Prose poetry; 19th-century French poetry; Baudelaire; Symbolism

Baudelaire; Le Spleen de Paris; petits poèmes en prose; van Bever; Georges Crès; poetry

2036

Good; text block firm and complete; cloth lightly rubbed at caps and edges

Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis

Autograph signature «Alfred Gallart» in ink on the half-title; initials «A. G.» stamped in gilt at the foot of the front board

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