BAUDELAIRE (Charles). Les Fleurs du mal. Preceded by a notice by Théophile Gautier. New edition. Paris : Calmann Lévy, 1892. - In-18, 182 x 116 : portrait, (2 ff.), 411 pp. printed cover. Half sow's skin, blind-stamped fillets, smooth spine decorated with a very nice long decoration composed of a gilt and mosaic foliage garland, over which is a mosaic banner with the title of the work gilt, on which is a silver cat ; on the bottom of the spine is represented a naked woman with a half-gilded body, carrying above her a flaming heart pierced by an arrow, surrounded by tears and two silver snakes intertwining to form a cup in which three mosaic skulls appear, head gilt, untrimmed, cover preserved (Ch. Meunier). New edition forming the first volume of the complete works of Baudelaire, illustrated with a portrait of the author engraved by Nargeot. Copy enriched with the etched frontispiece by Félicien Rops for the edition of Les Epaves, printed on chine. Very beautiful binding by Charles Meunier, with a very nice macabre decoration on the spine, gilt, mosaic and silvered. A very well preserved copy despite some foxing.