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    [BAUDELAIRE (CHARLES)Les Fleurs du mal], FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, without title-page, dark morocco gilt by Charles Meunier (signed in blind on covers, and gilt on front turn-in), covers with central pictorial panels worked in coloured onlays (upper panel depicting a skeleton and flowers rising up with from a bed of skulls, entwined with a snake against a backdrop of the sun emerging from behind the mountains, captioned “Les fleurs du mal”; lower panel of a skull resting on an open book and thistles, entwined with a banner “Amor A Mort”), purple watersilked endpapers, gilt dentelles with skull cornerpieces„ g.e., central original printed wrappers bound in, half morocco chemise [Carteret I, pp.118-123], 8vo, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1858

    [BAUDELAIRE (CHARLES)Les Fleurs du mal], FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, without title-page, dark morocco gilt by Charles Meunier (signed in blind on covers, and gilt on front turn-in), covers with central pictorial panels worked in coloured onlays (upper panel depicting a skeleton and flowers rising up with from a bed of skulls, entwined with a snake against a backdrop of the sun emerging from behind the mountains, captioned “Les fleurs du mal”; lower panel of a skull resting on an open book and thistles, entwined with a banner “Amor A Mort”), purple watersilked endpapers, gilt dentelles with skull cornerpieces„ g.e., central original printed wrappers bound in, half morocco chemise [Carteret I, pp.118-123], 8vo, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1858

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    douxquelamort:

From Pogany’s illustrations of Wagner’s Parsifal.

    douxquelamort:

    From Pogany’s illustrations of Wagner’s Parsifal.

    (Source: fleurdechair)

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    Eve, Serpent, and Death. Hans Baldung Grien.

    Eve, Serpent, and Death. Hans Baldung Grien.

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