- Lot 75

LOBEL-RICHE (Almery) / POE (E. A.) / BAUDELAIRE (Charles). Twenty extraordinary stories. Translated by Charles Baudelaire, illustrated with 41 original drypoints including the frontispiece portrait. Plantin, Paris. 1927. Two volumes in-4, in sheets, folded covers (without slipcovers). Edition of 197 numbered copies, this one of 156 on Arches wove paper, with separate suites, including the pure etching of the twenty off-text, the state with remarks, the state in black of the letters with remarks. A total of 60 etchings, two of which are uniformly freckled in the suite volume. Enriched copy on white paper, with a nice original drawing, black and bistre pencil, female nude. Signed "homage of the painter and engraver".