The Flowers of Evil Les Fleurs du mal

by Charles Baudelaire

$35,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857. First edition, first printing containing the six suppressed poems: Les Bijoux , Le Léthé , A celle qui est trop gaie , Lesbos , Femmes damnées , and Les Métamorphoses du vampire. With the following issue points: Feurs in the headline on pp. 31 and 108; with p. 45 misnumbered 44, and with the last word of the first line on p. 201 captieux instead

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