Baudelaire, Charles. Les Fleures du Mal (1882)

Baudelaire, Charles. Les Fleures du Mal; Precedees d'une Notice par Theophile Gautier. Nouvelle Edition. Paris: Levy, 1882. [986] Vellum spine with patterned paper over boards, leather spine title label, 18.5 x 12 cm, thin surface cracks to spine joints, but well-attached. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 411 pp., foxing throughout. Good. Hardcover. This edition particularly scarce, with Worldcat recording three locations only, two in Switzerland and one in Germany. OCLC 248776537. This work was first published in 1857.  French text.Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), b. & d. at Paris, France. "One of the most compelling poets of the 19th century. While Baudelaire’s contemporary Victor Hugo is generally—and sometimes regretfully—acknowledged as the greatest of 19th-century French poets, Baudelaire excels in his unprecedented expression of a complex sensibility and of modern themes within structures of classical rigor and technical artistry. Baudelaire is distinctive in French literature