POEMS IN PROSE. Translated by Arthur Symons. The Bibelot, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1909 by Baudelaire, Charles - 1909

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London: Elkin Mathews,, 1905. First edition, first impression. Symons's interest in various figures of the French symbolist movement led to his translation of a number of key writers, including Baudelaire. In 1900 Symons published his revelatory The Symbolist Movement in Literature, in which he writes that Baudelaire "spent his whole life in writing one book of verse (out of which all French poetry has come since his time), one book of prose in which prose becomes a fine art, some criticism which is the sanest, subtlest, and surest which his generation produced, and a translation which is better than a marvellous original. What would French poetry be today if Baudelaire had never existed?" James G. Nelson, in his study of Elkin Mathews, states that this volume was "among the more interesting as well as significant examples" of the Vigo Cabinet Series (p. 61). The publisher issued two bindings: one is wrappers (at 1s.) and one in cloth (at 1s. 6d.) This, the issue in wrappers, is notoriously fragile.… Read More

Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1928. No. 221 of 800 copies. 12 copper plate engravings from the original drawings by Jean de Bosschere. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Half felt, brown buckram, felt label on upper board, t.e.g. Spine darkened and rubbed, else Fine. Inscribed: "To Scott Cunningham from Susan Wilbur, 19 January 1979. No. 221 of 800 copies. 12 copper plate engravings from the original drawings by Jean de Bosschere. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Scott Cunningham's Copy. Scott Cunningham (1956-1993) was the author of many books about Wicca, and is recognized as one of the most influential authors in the field of natural magic.