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“These translations reflect the affinity he felt for Poe as a poet and writer. Baudelaire admired
the visionary quality of Poe’s text and related to him on many levels. Both lived in poverty,
suffered from addictions and depression. Both were under appreciated by the literary
establishment of their times. Both embraced mysticism, the fantastic, the macabre and the
grotesque in their writings. Finally, both were searching for answers to philosophical questions
in their aesthetic and literary pursuits. […] Through his translations, commentary and
criticism, Baudelaire contributed to the favorable reception Poe generally received in Europe
and to the high esteem in which European symbolist and surrealist poets held Poe” (Baudelaire and
the Arts, Brown University).
Très bel exemplaire en maroquin décoré de Marcelin Lortic.
Provenance : Edwin B. Holden, avec ex-libris (catalogue New York, 1920, nº 1263 : “Fine copy.”
La reliure était attribuée par erreur au Club Bindery, que le bibliophile, spécialiste de littérature
anglaise et américaine, avait contribué à fonder).- William Reese (catalogue 298, nº 279 :
“Whether Holden commissioned the binding, or it was undertaken prior to his acquisition of
the set is not ascertainable at this point, but its elegant dress by one of the prominent French
binders of the time is not inappropriate, given the French appreciation of Poe’s work.”)
Grolier Club, The Persistence of Poe, The Edgar Allan Poe Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane, New York, 2014, nº 56 et pp. 62-64 :
“Lea and Blanchard accepted Poe’s Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque sometime around September of 1839. […] Due to
economic trouble at Lea and Blanchard, it is likely that only 750 copies were actually printed. […] The two-volume collection of
tales was published in early December 1839.”- Heartman & Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of Edgar Allan Poe, pp. 49-54.
15 000 / 20 000 €