Les Paradis Artificiels: Opium & Haschisch

Paris: Societe des Medecins Bibliophiles, 1921 [1923].
First Thus.

23cm x 17.5cm. 244, [6], [2] pages, colour and black and white illustrations in the text, 21 colour plates. Contemporary signed binding by Eugene Buer of Lyon, half leather with decorative leather onlays, marbled papered boards, gilt lettering, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, retaining the original illustrated wrappers. Text is in French.

An illustrated bibliophile edition of Baudelaire’s Artificial Paradises, on the drug experiences of hashish and opium and their relationship to creative expression, comprising his essay on hashish and, in the second part, his adaptation of Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Illustrated throughout by Henry Chapront with colour plates and text illustrations. One of 150 numbered copies printed for members, this being one of 100 subscriber copies on laid linen-and-hemp paper, additionally issued with a suite of 21 colour proofs on Chine paper, including the facsimile portrait of Baudelaire.

Minor discolouration to spine. Very minor rubbing to leather. Very minor soiling. Very Good Condition.

AU$1,200