Charles BAUDELAIRE Les fleurs du mal. - Lot 187

Charles BAUDELAIRE Les fleurs du mal. First edition of 1857 and edition of 1861 bound in a half-bound volume. - Original edition Poulet-Malassis et Debroise Libraires-éditeurs, 4 rue de Buci, 1857. 248 p. First-edition copy with the six erotic poems, three of which are grouped in the table under the interior title Les Fleurs du Mal (Les Bijoux (XX); Le Léthé (XXX); A celle qui est trop gaie (XXXIX); Lesbos (LXXX); Femmes damnées (LXXXI); Les métamorphoses du vampire (LXXXVII)). These first-edition copies differ in the following ways: on p. 31 and p. 108, the common title Les Fleurs du Mal is printed as Les Feurs du Mal; p. 201, the word capiteux is mistakenly printed captieux; p. 45 is numbered 44. - 1861 edition, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et De Broise, 1861. Second edition, partly original, "augmented by thirty-five new poems", decorated with Baudelaire's portrait engraved on a plate. by Bracquemond. Some spotting, wear to covers.