Live auction - Lot 121

[UK - Eragny Press]

Un coeur simple.

FLAUBERT, Gustave

€ 180 / 250

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(London, "en vente chez Hacon & Ricketts", 1901)

16mo.

Publisher's binding: half beige cloth, blue paper on covers, lettered label on front cover, flat spine. Uncut copy.

Illustrated by Lucien Pissarro with a frontispiece "Girl and cow" within a floral border, same border on facing page and some initials. The borders and initials were wood-engraved by Esther Pissarro. Eragny's mark on last leaf. Lucien at first asked his father Camille to create a frontispiece for this work but he refused. Printed in Vale type. Edition limited to 226 unnumbered copies on Arnold's unbleached paper, of which 200 were for sale.
Ref. Ransom, Eragny Press, 7. - The gentle art of Pissarro, 18. - Moore p. 19. - Tomkinson, Eragny Press, 8.
*** Illustré d'un frontispice cerné d'un encadrement ornementé, même encadrement sur la p. opposée et quelques initiales dans le texte. Rel. d'édition.

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Lot 121

Un coeur simple.

FLAUBERT, Gustave

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