LYDIS (Mariette) - BAUDELAIRE (Charles) - Lot 203

LYDIS (Mariette) - BAUDELAIRE (Charles) Les Fleurs du mal. Paris : G. Govone, 1928. - In-4, 339 x 250: 337 pp, (7 ff. last two blank), 10 plates, printed cover. Gray morocco, boards and spine continuously decorated with parallel black wavy fillets, framing in the center of the first board a black morocco lozenge decorated with bands of bronze and gilt oval motifs, smooth spine, wide gray morocco framing inside, decorated with parallel cold wavy fillets, bronze moiré silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, bordered slipcase (Lefranc). Edition limited to 353 copies, with a full-page reproduction of a self-portrait of Baudelaire and an autograph page by the author. One of 290 numbered copies on Hollande Pannekoek (no. 92), this copy is enriched with the complete suite of 10 color etchings, signed by Mariette LYDIS (1890-1970). This suite, considered one of the artist's finest productions, was published separately by the publisher in 125 copies only. This is one of 75 in color on Pannekoek Hollande vellum. Note that in 1937, the publisher published another suite of 33 color compositions by Mariette Lydis to illustrate the same text. Superb copy in a binding signed Lefranc. Slightly faded back. Provenance: N. Harwich, with bookplate.