BOUILHET (Louis).
♦ Last songs. Posthumous poems. With a preface by Gustave Flaubert. Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1872. Large in-8, midnight blue morocco, jansenist, interior gilt filleting, tan morocco lining, blue moire endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover (Marius Michel).
First edition, decorated in frontispiece with an engraved portrait of the author.
For the poems of his great friend Bouilhet (1821-1869), to whom he dedicated Madame Bovary, Flaubert wrote the famous preface which appears here for the first time.
Perfect binding in morocco lined by Marius Michel.
