Lot 125
Flaubert (Gustave) Madame Bovary. Provincial Manners, first English edition, Vizetelly & Co, 1886.
Hammer Price: £4,200
Description
Flaubert (Gustave) Madame Bovary. Provincial Manners, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, first English edition, preliminary publisher's advertisement f., half-title, title, frontispiece and 5 plates, without 32pp. publisher's advertisements as often, a few small stains, very occasional light surface marks, cracking to gutter, original gilt blue cloth, spine and edges of covers browned, spine ends and corners bumped, a few light surface marks to covers, uncut, an excellent copy, 8vo, Vizetelly & Co, 1886.
⁂ First English edition of Flaubert's first novel with the translation by socialist activist and youngest daughter of Karl Marx, Eleanor Marx-Aveling.
Description
Flaubert (Gustave) Madame Bovary. Provincial Manners, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, first English edition, preliminary publisher's advertisement f., half-title, title, frontispiece and 5 plates, without 32pp. publisher's advertisements as often, a few small stains, very occasional light surface marks, cracking to gutter, original gilt blue cloth, spine and edges of covers browned, spine ends and corners bumped, a few light surface marks to covers, uncut, an excellent copy, 8vo, Vizetelly & Co, 1886.
⁂ First English edition of Flaubert's first novel with the translation by socialist activist and youngest daughter of Karl Marx, Eleanor Marx-Aveling.
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