287 - FLAUBERT. CHAHINE, Edgar.

FLAUBERT. CHAHINE, Edgar. November. Paris, Les Editions d'Art Devambez, 1928. Folio (approx. 34 x 26 cm). Period Lavallière morocco leather, author’s name, title, and date in gold lettering, engraved copper inlay on the top cover, endpapers lined with fawn morocco and framed by multiple gold or black fillets forming a geometric spandrel pattern, brown silk endpapers, edges gilt on endpapers, cover and spine preserved, in a marbled [Maylander] (spine faded, slipcase slightly scuffed). Description: First separate edition of this early work by Flaubert. Written in 1842 and never published during his lifetime; it did not appear in *Œuvres de jeunesse* until 1910. Illustrated with 21 etchings and drypoints, engraved in black by Edgar Chahine, including a portrait of Flaubert as a frontispiece based on a drawing by Delaunay, a vignette on the title page, and 10 plates. Limited edition of 238 copies; this is no. 11, one of 25 copies bound in Japanese-style format with the etchings in two states. Enriched with the four additional plates reserved exclusively for the Japanese-style copies, also in two states. Includes one of the copper plates and an original drawing by the artist, signed. A very fine copy in an elegant morocco binding, perfectly mounted by Maylander. Provenance: ex-libris of Henri Marcus (1888–1960), a great bibliophile and collector.