Charles Baudelaire: Souvenirs, Correspondances, Bibliographie, suivie de pièces inédites
Paris: René Pincebourde, 1872. First, Limited Edition, Extra Illustrated. Small 8vo 8 12 x 5 5/8 inches (216 x 141 mm); 205 pp. 3/4 bound in blue morocco with marbled boards, raised bands, gilt titles and decorations in compartments t.e.g., original pink paper wrappers bound in. One of the small number of copies printed on fine laid paper (of varying sizes) after 6 numbered copies on papier Chine. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED: four images are bound-in after the half title, frontispiece and title pages, 3 of which are pasted down on laid paper: engraved portrait of the poet by Félix Braquemond, reproductions of 3 drawings by Baudelaire; tissue guards.
Engraved bookplates of André Barrier and Serge Barrier inside the front endpaper, and of Jean Barrier on the first free endpaper, next to light pencil and pen inscriptions. A few spots of foxing to the first illustration and its tissueguard; tiny pencil and pen marginalia throughout.
[Vicaire, I, 352; Carteret, I, 130; BNF30066471].
A collector's compilation of visual material along with the collection published by Poulet-Malassis, Ch. Cousin, Charles Asselineau and the viscount de Lovenjoul, of unpublished documents relating to Baudelaire that they owned. A special edition of 6 copies on Chine sold for 10 francs, according to the 'Bibliographie de France 1972', followed by a small number on 'vergé' –like this copy– for 5 francs, and the ordinary copies sold for 3 francs.
This copy contains:
- Engraved portrait of the poet by Félix Braquemond.
- 3 reproductions of drawings by Baudelaire.
- Biography (Baudelaire's youth, with his first known, unpublished verse piece) signed Charles C[ousin] Bibliographe, December 1868.
- Ten letters from Baudelaire to Messrs. Charles Asselineau and P. Malassis.
- The drama l'Ivrogne (scenario of the drama); letters from Messrs. Tisserant, Hostein.
- Letter from Alfred de Vigny to Baudelaire.
- Letters from Eugène Delacroix to Baudelaire (five letters).
- Letters from Messrs. Victor Hugo, J. Soulary, J. Barbey d'Aurevilly, Méryon, Taine.
- Translation of Longfellow's The Peace Pipe
- Rectifications to the study on Baudelaire by Mr. Théophile Gautier.
- Baudelaire's funeral; speeches by Messrs. Asselineau and T. de Banville.
- Bibliography.
- Appendix (five verse pieces, including three unpublished satirical pieces).
- Letter from M. Flaubert on 'Les Fleurs du Mal' and letter from Baudelaire to the Minister of State on the seizure of his book.
Félix Henri Bracquemond (1833 – 1914) was a French painter, etcher, and printmaker. He played a key role in the revival of printmaking, encouraging artists such as Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro to use this technique. Unusually for a prominent artist of this period, he also designed pottery for a number of French factories, in an innovative style that marks the beginning of Japonisme in France.
Condition: Near fine.
Item number: 1820
Price: $1,500.00
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