Edgar A. Poe // Histoires Grotesques et Sérieuses (traduites par C. Baudelaire)

Small octavo, early green Morocco over marble paper-covered board, spine elaborately gilt, corners tipped in vellum, attached silk bookmark.

Excellent condition.

Baudelaire spent 17 years of his life, between 1848 and 1865, studying and translating Poe's work, publishing his work in newspapers and in five works including this one, the last in the series.

Beyond his points in common with Poe, Baudelaire sought to make the American author known in France, as is clearly shown in the letter to Sainte-Beuve written in 1852: "It is necessary, that is to say I desire, that Edgar Poe, who is not much in America, becomes a great man for France."

The ten tales grouped in this work are different from those published by Edgar Poe in his "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque".