490 - GAUTIER (Théophile). Portraits and Literary Memoirs. Gérard de Nerval—Madame Émile de Girardin—Henri Heine—Charles Baudelaire—Achim d'Arnim. Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1875. In-8, [2] leaves, 319–[1] pp., brown half-shagreen with corners, ribbed spine, gilt title, date at the bottom, gilt head, cover and spine preserved (modern binding).

GAUTIER (Théophile). Portraits and Literary Memoirs. Gérard de Nerval—Madame Émile de Girardin—Henri Heine—Charles Baudelaire—Achim d'Arnim. Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1875. In-8, [2] leaves, 319–[1] pp., brown half-shagreen with corners, ribbed spine, gilt title, date at the bottom, gilt head, cover and spine preserved (modern binding). Posthumous first edition of this collection, published three years after Théophile Gautier’s death and bringing together five essays devoted to prominent figures of Romanticism, including Baudelaire, who had dedicated *Les Fleurs du Mal* to Théophile Gautier, with Gautier offering here a beautiful personal tribute to the poet and his work. Ex-libris bearing the initials “CB,” illustrated with a woodcock.