288 - FLAUBERT. RICHEMONT, Alfred de.

FLAUBERT. RICHEMONT, Alfred de. Madame Bovary. Paris, Librairie des amateurs, A. Ferroud, F. Ferroud Successeur, 1905. Very small folio, (5)-IV-334-(1) pp., frontispiece, plates, and vignettes. Contemporary pine-patterned morocco, spine with raised bands accented by gold dots and blind-stamped fillets, panels with gold fillets, title and author’s name in gold, date at the bottom, covers adorned with a frame of gilt fillet motifs punctuated by Romantic-style metalwork, gilt edges, guilloché headbands, double gilt fillet on the edges, havana morocco inner covers adorned with a large framed motif of gilt fillets and volutes, brown silk endpapers, double endpapers of marbled paper, cover and spine preserved, housed in a hand-made paper slipcase with morocco bias binding [Carayon]. (slipcase rubbed) Description: In a superb Carayon binding. Illustrated with 27 delicate compositions by the painter Alfred de Richemont (1857–1911), etched in black by Charles Chessa, including a vignette on the title page, repeated on the cover, 3 chapter heads, 3 end-piece illustrations, and 20 out-of-text illustrations, including the frontispiece. Limited edition of 600 copies; one of 100 copies on Japanese paper or Arches grand vélin, this one on Japanese paper, no. 37. Enriched with 3 states of the etchings (pure etching with a note, pre-print with a note, and final state), in black. A very fine copy. A gilt bookplate by Albert Bélinac, a French industrialist and collector of fabrics and silk in Saint-Étienne between the late 19th and 20th centuries, stamped at the bottom of the front endpaper.