Les Fleurs du mal
By: Charles Baudelaire ; frontispice de Pierre Leroy
Contributors: Leroy, Pierre, 1919- illustrator; Kieffer, René, 1875-1963, bookseller; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Presses de la Cité
Published: 1945
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 261
Notes: With a half-title

With a frontispiece engraving by Pierre Leroy

Date of publication from colophon

"Le tirage sur papier vergé d'Ingres filigrane, comporte 1,000 exemplaires de diffeŕentes teintes."--Colophon

Pagination includes 3 blank leaves at beginning and 4 blank leaves at end

Rare Book copy: No. 33. Extra-illustrated with 20 hand-colored etchings by Folliette. Label of bookseller René Kieffer on front free endpaper.

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Issued in printed wrappers

Rare Book copy: Bound in full black leather with silver-stamped vignettes on upper and lower covers and silver lettering on spine; decorated endpapers; top edge gilt; original wrappers bound in.