Carteret, I, 329; Clouzot, 128; Vicaire, II, 544 and III, 910.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition<\/span>, \u2018in the rare publisher’s hardback, which gives it a clear added value\u2019 (Clouzot).<\/p>\n \u00c9maux et Cam\u00e9es<\/i> was Th\u00e9ophile Gautier’s last collection. He began writing some of the pieces contained in the book in 1840. The first edition contained 18 poems, and Gautier continued to rework his volume until 1872. This definitive edition was greatly expanded, containing 53 poems.<\/p>\n This collection is one of the most emblematic of Parnassian poetry, and elevates Gautier to the rank of master of this movement. What mattered was beauty, \u2018art for art’s sake\u2019, as Gautier himself put it (Preface to Mademoiselle de Maupin, 1835). \u00c9maux et Cam\u00e9es<\/i> is the extension and culmination of this thinking, recognised by his contemporaries such as Baudelaire, who devoted a text to him in which he praised the poet’s ability to : \u2018The search for beauty aims to establish a timeless work, and this is what Gautier advocates in the \u201cPreface\u201d to \u00c9maux et Cam\u00e9es<\/i>.<\/p>\n The work was conceived during major social and political upheavals: the 1848 Revolution and Napoleon III’s coup d’\u00e9tat. Yet Gautier wrote: \u2018Unmindful of the hurricane that whipped my windows shut, I made \u00c9maux et Cam\u00e9es\u2019. Art is what matters.<\/p>\n A very fine copy.<\/p>\n Stamp on verso of last leaf: \u2018Saechs. Franzoes.Vertrag.1856.\u2019 This stamp shows that the work was subject to the treaty between Saxony and France on literary property promulgated on 14 June 1856. The treaty protects both countries from counterfeiting, of which Leipzig is a prime example. An inventory of Saxon booksellers’ holdings was drawn up to identify unauthorised editions. Copies not bearing this stamp were liable to confiscation and destruction by both printers and booksellers-publishers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 18mo (130 x 85 mm) 2 nn.ll. (half-title, title), 106 pp., 1 nn.l. (table). Original publisher’s green buckram decorated and gilt, flat spine, gilt edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":78582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[544],"product_tag":[598,1450],"class_list":{"0":"post-78587","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-literature","7":"product_tag-19th-century-literature","8":"product_tag-first-edition","9":"pa_auteur-gautier-theophile-2","10":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Th\u00e9ophile GAUTIER","chapeau":"In the rare original publisher's binding","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Eug\u00e8ne Didier, 1852","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n