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BAUDELAIRE, Charles (1821-67). Les Fleurs du Mal, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857.
12° (180 x 155mm), half title, title in red and black with publisher's device (occasional light spotting and marginal browning), original cloth, spine lettered in gilt (rubbed, joints splitting, covers thumb-marked, inner hinges split). Provenance: Hermant (ownership signature on title); scoring in pencil and an amendment to poem 81 ("Femmes Damnées").
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the six suppressed poems. Five to six weeks after the publication of Les Fleurs du Mal, following the judgement on August 20, Baudelaire was successfully prosecuted and fined for offending public morals, and the publisher was ordered to remove six poems from the work (which the present copy retains). These poems were deleted from the second edition, published in 1861. The amendments to "Femmes Damnées" substitute the name "Marguerite" for "Hippolyte", deletes the 24th stanza, and make substitutions in the final stanza. Carteret I pp. 118-123.
12° (180 x 155mm), half title, title in red and black with publisher's device (occasional light spotting and marginal browning), original cloth, spine lettered in gilt (rubbed, joints splitting, covers thumb-marked, inner hinges split). Provenance: Hermant (ownership signature on title); scoring in pencil and an amendment to poem 81 ("Femmes Damnées").
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the six suppressed poems. Five to six weeks after the publication of Les Fleurs du Mal, following the judgement on August 20, Baudelaire was successfully prosecuted and fined for offending public morals, and the publisher was ordered to remove six poems from the work (which the present copy retains). These poems were deleted from the second edition, published in 1861. The amendments to "Femmes Damnées" substitute the name "Marguerite" for "Hippolyte", deletes the 24th stanza, and make substitutions in the final stanza. Carteret I pp. 118-123.
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