Research Catalog

Title

Selections from Les fleurs du mal / Charles Baudelaire ; translated by Norman R. Shapiro ; engravings by David Schorr ; letterpress printing by Ken Botnick.

Author

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867.

Publication

[New York?] : David Schorr, [2000]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Shapiro, Norman R.
• Schorr, David
• Botnick, Ken
• Portfoliobox, Inc., binder

Description

37 sheets (37 unnumbered leaves) : 17 illustrations; 58 x 40 cm

Summary

• Illustrations: 17 prints : etchings with engraving, aquatint, mezzotint and drypoint, black and white ; full-page (plate marks 46 x 31 cm). Printed on white Hahnemühle Dürer etching paper in the printshop at Wesleyan University on a Charles Brand press; each numbered, signed and dated ("1997/imp. 1998") in pencil and inscribed with title of the corresponding poem. Comprise portrait titled "Baudelaire" and illustrations to the 16 poems included (see Contents, below). "Most of the work on these plates was done during a residency at Penland in North Carolina [in 1997]"--Artist's preface.
• Title page, translator's and artist's preface, colophon and text of the 16 poems with English translation printed letterpress in Monotype Garamond on a Vandercook printing press at Washington University, St. Louis, on 20 sheets of gray Fabriano Ingres paper. Designed by Botnick in collaboration with the artist.
• Leaves are numbered on verso in pencil: 1L, 1R, 2L, 2R ... 18L, 18R, 19.

Subjects

• Livres d'artistes > United States > 20th century
• Schorr, David
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Garamond
• Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Livres d'artistes – United States – 20th century.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Garamond.

Note

• "Privately published by David Schorr"--E-mail from Ken Botnick, Feb. 22, 2007.
• "The engravings, copper plates made by the artist in the spring and summer of 1997, were printed on Hannemüle [sic] paper in an edition of twenty-five, with ten artists proofs. Numbers one through ten are accompanied by the poems, which have been handset in Garamond & printed on Fabriano Ingres paper by Ken Botnick, winter, 2000"--Colophon.
• This record describes numbers one through ten, which include the poems.
• Translations originally published in: Selected poems from Les fleurs du mal. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998; illustrated with reproductions of the present engravings, which were were originally commissioned for it.
• Detailed information on the project was supplied by the Mary Ryan Gallery, New York. See Spencer Coll. files.

Language (note)

• Parallel text in English and French.

Binding (note)

• Issued unbound, in dark maroon Japanese silk brocade-covered clamshell box with original etching ("The end of the day," printed in Charbonnel ink with metallic green pigment, on Fabriano Roma paper) inset in front cover. Box was designed by the artist and produced at Portfoliobox, Inc., Providence, R.I.

Contents

Au lecteur = To the reader -- Don Juan aux enfers = Don Juan in hell -- Châtiment de l'orgueil = Pride punished -- L'ideal = The ideal -- La géante = The giantess -- "Tu mettrais l'univers ..." = "Boredom it is ..." -- Le vampire = The vampire -- Le chat = The cat -- Tout entière = All of her -- Le revenant = The incubus -- Les hiboux = The owls -- Une gravure fantastique = A fantastic engraving -- Spleen = Spleen -- Les deux bonnes soeurs = The two good sisters -- La Beatrice = Beatrice mine -- La fin de la journée = The end of the day.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2000 16-74

OCLC

85449847

Author

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867.

Title

Selections from Les fleurs du mal / Charles Baudelaire ; translated by Norman R. Shapiro ; engravings by David Schorr ; letterpress printing by Ken Botnick.

Publisher

[New York?] : David Schorr, [2000]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

sheet

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 3; signed by Schorr, Botnick and Shapiro.

Language

Parallel text in English and French.

Binding

Issued unbound, in dark maroon Japanese silk brocade-covered clamshell box with original etching ("The end of the day," printed in Charbonnel ink with metallic green pigment, on Fabriano Roma paper) inset in front cover. Box was designed by the artist and produced at Portfoliobox, Inc., Providence, R.I. NN

Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

United States Missouri Saint Louis.

Added Author

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867. Fleurs du mal. Selections.

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867. Fleurs du mal. Selections. English.

Shapiro, Norman R.

Schorr, David, ill., etcher.

Botnick, Ken, printer.

Portfoliobox, Inc., binder.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2000 16-74