Madame Bovary

First edition, one of the very rare copies on heavy vellum paper (Clouzot counts 75).
Bound in contemporary half navy blue shagreen, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt garlands, partly faded, and tooled with gilt fillets and fleurons, gilt roll at foot, dark blue paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, a period binding.
Some occasional foxing.
Unlike the trade copies printed in two volumes, the deluxe paper copies are presented in a single volume, without title-page or half-title for the second part, the gatherings being continuously signed.
They also retain all the first-issue points, including the misprint "Sénart" on the dedication leaf.
A very rare deluxe paper copy, strictly bound at the time of publication.