Flaubert (Gustave) Madame Bovary. Provincial Manners, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, first English edition, preliminary publisher's advertisement f., half-title, frontispiece and 5 plates, without 32pp. publisher's advertisements as often, 1 short marginal tear, occasional light marginal soiling, a few pencil marks or notes to margins, some cracking to gutter but holding firm, original gilt blue cloth, spine a little darkened, spine ends and corners a little bumped with small chip to foot of spine, light rubbing and marking 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.