BAUDELAIRE, Charles Flowers of evil. London: Limited Editions Club, Fanfare Press, 1940
4to., xxxvi, 306 pp.
Original publisher's red cloth, with matching slip-case. Text set in Eric Gill's monotrype Perpetua, printed on special Rives paper by Ernest Ingham. With 24 drawings by Jacob Epstein. Uncut. , An exquisite production of Baudelaire's great work in a limited printing, No. 1114 of 1500. This edition was translated into English verse by various hands, and edited, with an introduction and notes, by James Laver. Epstein's illustrations were printed from the lithographic stone by Mourlot Freres in Paris.
$US250
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