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Les paradis artificiels : opium et haschisch / par Charles Baudelaire.

Accession number
PML 141983
Creator
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867.
Published
Paris : Poulet-Malassis et De Broise, 1860.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
First ed.
"Alençon.--Typ. de Poulet-Malassis et de Broise"--Colophon.
Publisher's advertisements ([4] p.) following text.
"Un mangeur d'opium" (p. [121]-297) is a translation of Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English opium-eater.
Description
iv, 304 p. ; 20 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Autograph note by Baudelaire tipped in before half t.p., signed with his initials, presenting the volume to Édouard Thierry.
Provenance
Inscribed and initialed on half t.p. by Baudelaire to Édouard Thierry; bookplate of Dr. Lucien-Graux; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Full yellow morocco by Pierre Legrain, with mosaic design tooled in gilt and in blind, with mosaic doublures of yellow morocco, original wrappers bound in; in slipcase.
Classification
Department