Charles Baudelaire; Ernest Pinard; Gaston Lebre [Ed.] — Le Proces Des Fleurs Du Mal

Paris, A. Chevalier-Marescq, 1885 . Cloth. The first collected publication of the surviving courtroom documents from Baudelaire's notorious 1857 Fleurs du Mal trial, extracted from volume III of Gaston Lebre's 1885 "Revue des grands proces contemporains." Rebound in a later quarter red cloth binding with marbled paper boards. The first collected publication of the surviving courtroom documents relating to the 1857 prosecution of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. First published in August 1885 in volume III of Gaston Lèbre's Revue des grands procès contemporains. This copy has been extracted from the journal and subsequently bound separately, comprising an unnumbered opening leaf followed by pp. 368-387, with six blank leaves bound in at the front and rear.  A significant legal and literary record of the prosecution of Les Fleurs du Mal, preserving Ernest Pinard's requisitoire, Gustave Chaix d'Est-Ange's defence, and the judgment of the court. Baudelaire was acquitted of offending religious morality but convicted, together with his publishers, of offending public morality. He was fined 300 francs and six poems were ordered to be suppressed. Rebound in a later quarter red cloth binding with marbled paper boards. Six blank leaves bound in at the front and rear. Externally, generally smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities, resulting in slight loss to paper and cloth. Pale damp staining to front joint, slightly extending to spine and lower edge. Ex-libris label, "Bibliotheque de la Bastide de la Pomme," to the front free endpaper. Very slight rubbing to boards with one or two very minor handling marks. One or two light spots to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, if characteristically age toned, with scattered spotting and one or two handling marks. Cockling to gutters of final few leaves of the extract. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .