Baudelaire (Charles) Les Fleurs du Mal, Pièces Condamnées, number 83 of 250 copies on Arches, from an edition limited to 257, unique copy with 21 original watercolours by Emilien Dufour illustrating text, 37 original black ink preliminary sketches of which 7 full-page, replacing the illustrations usually in the published book, frontispiece signed and others initialled by the artist, a few with watercolour, mounted on blank leaves bound in at end, some titled in pencil by the artist, tissue guards, bound in vellum with signed watercolour by Dufour to both covers, by René Kieffer with his ticket, depicting a naked woman lying amongst waves to upper cover and heads of two women to lower, spine titled in black, t.e.g., others uncut, board slip-case (slightly rubbed), folio (binding c.390 x 290mm.), Paris, 1931.

⁂ Emilien Dufour (1896-1975), French painter and illustrator.