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First edition

Gustave FLAUBERT Bouvard et Pécuchet

Gustave FLAUBERT

Bouvard et Pécuchet

Alphonse Lemerre, Paris 1881, 12x18,5cm, relié.


First edition, one of 50 copies on vergé de Hollande, the only large paper copies (apart from 10 on China).
Contemporary dark red shagreen, probably publisher's original, spine in six compartments with gilt fleurons, covers with double gilt fillet frame and gilt fleurons to corners, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt fillet to edge of covers, gilt roulette to headpieces, top edge gilt, slipcase edged in dark red shagreen.  
A very rare and very good copy in a perfectly matched contemporary binding.

10 000 €

Réf : 52259

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