Lot 56
- 56
Flaubert, Gustave
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
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Description
- paper and ink
Madame Bovary. Moeurs de Province. Paris: Michel Lévy, 1857
2 volumes, in 12s (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.; 175 x115 mm). Half-titles; some light staining to front and end leaves, a few pages in vol. 1 roughly cut at top. Publisher's green cloth panelled in blind, yellow coated endpapers, smooth spines lettered gilt; short splits to upper hinges in both volumes, lower hinge in vol. 1 loose.
2 volumes, in 12s (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.; 175 x115 mm). Half-titles; some light staining to front and end leaves, a few pages in vol. 1 roughly cut at top. Publisher's green cloth panelled in blind, yellow coated endpapers, smooth spines lettered gilt; short splits to upper hinges in both volumes, lower hinge in vol. 1 loose.
Provenance
Purchased from Lucien Goldschmidt
Literature
Carteret I:263–266; Talvart et Place VI:1–2; Vicaire III:721–723
Catalogue Note
First edition in book form of one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century French literature. The novel's first appearance in print in 1856 in the Revue de Paris so scandalized readers that Flaubert was prosecuted, together with the part-proprietor and editor of the journal, for offenses against public morals. He was acquitted, and heralded as the literary sensation of the day.