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Lot 446

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[LITERATURE] FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE madame bovary, moeurs de province

Paris: Michel Lévy Fréres, 1857. In two volumes. First edition in book form. 12mo (leaf size 183 x 114 mm). With original limp green wrappers and spine panels in each volume. Complete, with half-titles and 36 pp. publisher's catalogue at back of the first volume. Three-quarter early 20th century straight grained black morocco and marbled boards; gilt spine compartments; top edges gilt, others untrimmed; by Creuzevault. Minor wear to boards; contemporary ownership signature in ink at head of both front wrappers, as well as a later ownership signature in ink front blank of the first volume. Ex-library with book-plates on front paste-downs and call numbers in pencil on title-pages. [Carteret I, p. 263].

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