Description
From the Limited Editions Club, The Flowers of Evil and Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire.
Tall octavo, [two volumes], xxxvi, 201pp, [3]; xii, 188pp, [2]. The English volume is bound in maroon buckram with a black cover panel and gilt spine label. The French volume is bound in marbled paper over maroon buckram, with a black gilt spine label. Housed in the publisher’s black slipcase. Illustrated with ten double-page etchings by Pierre-Yves Trémois. Includes The Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club for June 1971, Number 444. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by Trémois on the limitation page, this being number 85. Both volumes with matching limitation numbers. (LEC 437)
The English text was translated into verse by various hands and edited by James Laver.
