Flaubert (Gustave) Madame Bovary - Moeurs de Province, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, some reinforcement to inner margins at beginning and end, small stain to lower margin of pp.73-80 vol.1, original printed upper wrappers bound in, bookplate removed from pastedowns, modern brown half morocco over marbled boards, preserved in modern suede-lined cloth drop-back box (erroneously titled "first English edition"), 8vo, Paris, Michel Levy Freres, 1857.

⁂ A first edition of one of the cornerstones of 19th century French literature. This is of the first issue with the name of the dedicatee misprinted as "Senart" not "Senard" and with "ni de votre devouement" instead of "et de votre devouement" on the same page. Also, on p.7, there is a large space between two words in "et la posa sur ses genoux" six lines from bottom.