Flowers of Evil: Fleurs du Mal in Pattern and Prose

New York: The Sylvan Press, 1947. Limited Edition. One of 1499 numbered copies. Quarto (27.25cm); simulated black leather, with titling and decorations stamed in gilt in spine and front cover; publisher's original acetate dustjacket, with printed sheet mounted to front flap; [ii],[6],7-140,[2]pp; illus. Faint foxing to endpapers and text edges, occasionally encroaching into the margins; light wear to exterior; Very Good+. Dustjacket is heavily rubbed and cloudy, with several tears and small losses; Good to Very Good. Laid in is a 46pp pamphlet with the French translations of Baudelaire's poems.

A privately printed limited edition of Baudelaire's collection of verse, offered here in new prose translations, accompanied by illustrations by Beresford Egan.