FLAUBERT, MADAME BOVARY, PARIS, 1903, MOSAIC BINDING FOR ROBERT HOE

4to (299 x 208mm.), copy no. 54 of a limited edition of 600 copies, one of 200 copies on papier du Japon, half-title, frontispiece, vignettes and plates in three states, contemporary binding by Micholci and Belz-Niedrée and finished by Leon Maillard, crushed brown morocco with a decorative outer border made from coloured morocco onlays, spine similarly tooled, brown morocco gilt doublures, green watered silk endpapers, gilt edges, matching chemise and slipcase, first quire almost detached, slipcase somewhat worn

Robert Hoe, morocco booklabel, sale, Anderson Auctions, 14 November 1912, lot 1248; sale, Parke-Bernet, 29 November 1948, lot 180, extract from sale catalogue loosely inserted

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