335 - FLAUBERT (Gustave). The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller. Paris, Victor Dancette, 1945. Quarto, aubergine morocco leather, with an elaborate design of interlacing geometric patterns forming a border and a central panel, gilt tooling and blind-stamped ornamentation, interior fillets, gold moiré lining and endpapers, gilt edges on endpapers, cover and spine (Gruel).

FLAUBERT (Gustave). The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller. Paris, Victor Dancette, 1945. Quarto, aubergine morocco leather, with an elaborate design of interlacing geometric patterns forming a border and a central panel, gilt tooling and blind-stamped ornamentation, interior fillets, gold moiré lining and endpapers, gilt edges on endpapers, cover and spine (Gruel). 29 illustrations and 4 initials by Henri Deluermoz in a medieval style, woodcuts in color by Paul Baudier. The text is printed in Gothic type. Printed in an edition of 270 copies; this one is one of 10 on pearlescent Japanese paper, containing a suite on China paper and an original large-format gouache. Binding by Léon Gruel, modeled after a 15th-century Neapolitan binding (circa 1480) executed by the bookbinder to the kings of Aragon: the latter, which covers a Catalan manuscript of the *Vida de Jesuchristo* by Ximenes, is reproduced in the Esmerian auction catalog (I, 1972, no. 10). Spine worn.