Noulhac (Henri, binder).- Baudelaire (Charles) Les Fleurs du Mal, number 61 of 115 copies, this copy for M. Eugène-Amédée Jacob, portrait, colour plates and illustrations by Armand Rassenfosse, some etchings or aquatints, with 15 additional etchings by other artists illustrating the work at end, bound in crushed reddish-brown goatskin, by Noulhac, covers with multi-rule border of strip of onlaid brown goatskin within several double or triple gilt fillets, spine titled in gilt with compartments similarly outlined and five raised bands, patterned silk doublures and linings, doublures framed with inlaid strips of dark brown goatskin and flowers of pink, purple and red at corners, signed "Noulhac 1918" at foot of front turn-in, original printed "snakeskin" wrappers bound in, g.e., very lightly rubbed at edges and corners, 4to (binding c.275 x 210mm.), Paris, pour Les Cents Bibliophiles, 1899.

⁂ The first illustrated edition of Les Fleurs du Mal.

Henri Noulhac (1866-1931), "A superlative craftsman, Noulhac specialized initially in plain leather bindings (reliures jansénistes) and copies of 18th-century bindings. By 1900 he had begun to incorporate modest floral emblems into the dentilled fillet borders on his covers. Noulhac never attempted to create a reputation for himself as a book designer per se, though he did achieve respect as an instructor, numbering Rose Adler and Madeleine Gras among his students". Duncan. Art Nouveau and Art Deco Bookbinding, p.150.