Lot 88
Symons (Arthur) Autograph manuscripts of his translations of the six condemned poems from Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, 19pp., 24-25 July 1919
Hammer Price: £1,700
Description
Symons (Arthur) Autograph manuscripts of his translations of the six condemned poems from Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, 19pp. including title on 19 leaves, recto only, with numerous autograph corrections and revisions, title page creased and a little browned with some chipping to extremities, some scattered spotted, old rust mark from (now discarded) paperclip to upper corner, later tie to upper corner with final leaf detached, preserved in custom folding chemise and calf-backed slip-case, 4to, 24-25 July 1919.
⁂ Symons' translations of the six poems famously banned by court order until 1949, "Femmes Damnees I.", "Les Bijoux", "A celle qui est trop gaie", "Les Metamorphoses du vampire", "Le Lethe", and "Lesbos". Baudelaire was one of the chief literary obsessions of Symons, these translations being one of the earliest in English, published by the Casanova Society in 1925.
Description
Symons (Arthur) Autograph manuscripts of his translations of the six condemned poems from Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, 19pp. including title on 19 leaves, recto only, with numerous autograph corrections and revisions, title page creased and a little browned with some chipping to extremities, some scattered spotted, old rust mark from (now discarded) paperclip to upper corner, later tie to upper corner with final leaf detached, preserved in custom folding chemise and calf-backed slip-case, 4to, 24-25 July 1919.
⁂ Symons' translations of the six poems famously banned by court order until 1949, "Femmes Damnees I.", "Les Bijoux", "A celle qui est trop gaie", "Les Metamorphoses du vampire", "Le Lethe", and "Lesbos". Baudelaire was one of the chief literary obsessions of Symons, these translations being one of the earliest in English, published by the Casanova Society in 1925.
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