Les fleurs du mal
By: Charles Baudelaire ; illustrées par Auguste Rodin ; avec une préface de Camille Mauclair.
Contributors: Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917.
Publisher: Limited Editions Club
Published: 1940
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 278
Description: Les Fleurs du mal (English: The Flowers of Evil), first published in 1857, was influential in the development of the symbolist and modernist movements. The 157 poems in this edition deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism and the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19th century.
Notes: In French; pref. in English and French.
Imprint on t.p.: Paris : Imprimé pour les membres de the Limited Editions Club.