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Hérodias / Gustave Flaubert ; compositions de Georges Rochegrosse ; gravées a l'eau-forte par Champollion ; préface par Anatole France.

Accession number
PML 152521
Creator
Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880.
Published
Paris : Librairie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud, Libraire-Éditeur, 1892.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
"Justification du tirage Nos 1 à 200. - Exemplaires sur papier du Japon ou grand vélin d'Arches. Nos. 201 à 250. - Exemplaires sur grand papier vélin d'Arches. Nos. 251 à 500. - Exemplaires sur papier vélin d'Arches."--Verso of half-title.
Some plates with imprint A. Ferroud Éditeur, Imp. Wittman.
"Imprimé par Chamerot et Renouard, 19, rue des Saints-Pères, 19 Paris."--Colophon.
Publishers' advertisement "En souscription", with sample 2 p. text at back.
PML copy: library has no. 111 signed.
With description laid in at front.
Binder's date incorrectly marked on spine as 1882.
Copy on Japanese vellum with the plates of Champollion after Rochegrosse in two states, one in the text and one separately, bound in, being the proofs before the letters.
Description
[3], xxxii, 88, [1], 4 p., [17] leaves of plates : ill., front. ; 27 cm
Provenance
From the Poor and Hearst collections, Henry William Poor bookplate ; from the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Bound by Chambolle-Duru, full crimson crushed levant French morocco, gilt panel with large fleur-de-lys corner pieces, on both sides. Doublures of royal blue crushed levant morocco with onlays of red levant and with a diaper pattern of small gilt fleur-de-lys, watered silk fly-leaves, gilt top, uncut, original wrappers bound in ; in marbled slipcase.
Classification
Department