[BAUDELAIRE] BRACQUEMOND, Félix (1833-1914)

[BAUDELAIRE] BRACQUEMOND, Félix (1833-1914)

Etching depicting the poet
[Second edition of The Flowers of evil – March 1861], 1 p. in-12°
Signed by Félix Bracquemond and Eugène Delâtre
Cropped margins (Baudelaire’s name engraved by Bracquemond below the engraving has been cropped off), mounted on modern vellum

First state proof that appeared in the frontispiece for the second edition of The Flowers of evil

The second edition, partly original, is printed in 1500 copies; 4 copies on China, and some copies on Holland and strong vellum that Baudelaire had printed at his own expense; and augmented with thirty-five new poems, does not contain the pieces condemned in 1857.

We attach:
A late steel engraving (1 p. in-8°) after a portrait of Nadar (appearing in the Complete Works at Calmann-Lévy – Paris, 1880), printed on laid paper. Some freckles.