[BAUDELAIRE (Charles)]. [SAINTE-BEUVE (Charles-Augustin)]. Les Consolations. [Paris, Charpentier, 1840]. In-12, red embossed percaline (Binding of the period). Curious separate edition of Sainte-Beuve's Consolations and Poésies diverses, taken from the first collective edition of his poetic works, where they occupy pp. 165-248. This slim volume is titled on the spine: Poésies bizarres. Baudelaire's copy, with this handwritten note on the first blank page: Offered to Charles Baudelaire. On the relationship between Baudelaire and Sainte-Beuve, we can of course refer to the tenth chapter of Contre Sainte-Beuve, in which Marcel Proust questions the friendship and admiration that the former always showed towards the latter, but also the blindness or cowardice of the critic towards the author of Les Fleurs du Mal, whose defence he did not take during the trial and to whom he never devoted an article: "If Sainte-Beuve, touched by the admiration, the deference, the kindness of Baudelaire, who sometimes sent him verses, and sometimes gingerbread, and wrote him the most exalted letters about Joseph Delorme, about Les Consolations, about his Lundis, sent him affectionate letters, he never answered Baudelaire's repeated requests to write even a single article about him. The greatest poet of the nineteenth century, who was also his friend, does not appear in the Lundis where so many counts Daru, d'Alton Shée and others have theirs. Vicaire, VII, 124 - Marcel Proust, Contre Sainte-Beuve, 1954, pp. 197-198.