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two blue books sitting next to each other on a white surfacean open book sitting on top of a table on a tabledrawing of a woman sitting on a rock in front of a drawing of a mana drawing of a woman and a child on a wallsomeone is holding a book open on a tablean open book with a drawing of a woman sitting on a rockan open book with a drawing of a woman and a mansomeone is holding a book with a picture of a woman in a blue dressa drawing of a woman sitting on a rock
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268 - FEL (William) & FLAUBERT (Gustave).
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Estimate €600 - €800
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FEL (William) & FLAUBERT (Gustave). Madame Bovary. Provincial Life. Paris, L. Carteret, 1927. 2 vols. in-8, midnight blue morocco, ribbed spine, title and volume number in gold, scattered stylised gold florets on the covers and spine, gilt edges, sixfold gilt fillet as an inner border, light blue moiré endpapers and lining, covers and spine preserved, in slipcases with flaps + 1 folio volume of plates in half-blue morocco, ribbed spine (G. Cretté, successor to Marius Michel). Spines sun-faded, ribs rubbed. Original colour etchings by W. Fel. Print run of 500 copies; ARTIST’S COPY on Japanese paper, containing a set of illustrations with notes in the text volumes, a large volume containing first-state sets, with notes, breakdowns, and 45 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS (including 10 drawings and 4 sketches for the frontispieces, headpieces and tailpieces in graphite, and 31 separate graphite drawings with red chalk highlights not included in the final illustration), accompanied by a handwritten letter from the artist to the Marquis de Castéja, on letterhead of the Cercle Artistique et Littéraire, undated, 2 pp. in-8, concerning this enriched artist’s copy intended for the Marquis de Castéja.
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Auction time 09/09/2026 at 1:00 PM
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