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Condition: Very Good. ⢠Late-period work by Beresford Egan (1905â"1984), the most important English post-Beardsley decadent artist. Egan's 1947 Sylvan Press 'Flowers of Evil' is his return to Baudelaire eighteen years after his breakout 1929 T. Werner Laurie illustrated Fleurs du Mal â" the project that established him as the legitimate English heir to Beardsley.⢠Coherent decadent-tradition object: Baudelaire wrote the book that licensed decadent illustration (Les Fleurs du Mal, 1857); Egan is the last artist who could illustrate it in the idiom it earned. The 1947 Sylvan Press edition closes a circle that opened in the 1890s with the Yellow Book and Savoy.Tan cloth-over-boards with deep burgundy printed Art Deco wavy sunburst design and starred title medallion, design clean and crisp; mild handling consistent with age. Spine title legible. Internal text leaves and Egan plates clean â" no foxing, no staining visible. No dust jacket. tan / earth-color cloth printed in deep burgundy/maroon.…