FLAUBERT (Gustave). Salammbô. Preface by... - Lot 43 - Ader

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FLAUBERT (Gustave). Salammbô. Preface by... - Lot 43 - Ader
FLAUBERT (Gustave). Salammbô. Preface by Léon Hennique. Paris : Librairie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud, 1900. - 2 volumes in-8, 278 x 181: frontispiece, (2 ff.), XXIV, 186 pp., (1 f.), illustrated cover; frontispiece, (2 ff.), 232 pp., (1 f.), illustrated cover. Havana morocco, flats adorned with a wide frame made of straight and interlaced golden bands and golden irons at the corners, decorated ribbed back, dark green morocco lining bordered by a double golden fillet and a golden roulette, and ornamented with the same frame as on the plates but made of red morocco bands, edged with gold fillet, compartments inside the frame in beige morocco decorated with a thousand-dot gold background, brick moire silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses , cover and back preserved (Ch. of Samblanx 1920). Edition of 600 copies, illustrated with 50 compositions by Georges Rochegrosse etched by Eugène-André Champollion, including two frontispieces, two title vignettes repeated on the covers, 18 full-page compositions , 15 chapter headings and 15 culs-de-lampe. Precious copy on paper from Japan, specially reserved for the engraver Champollion, justified by Ferroud and including 3 states of the illustrations (pure etching with remark, before the letter with remark and final state ) and the publication prospectus. Copy in a rich lined binding by Charles de Samblanx, enriched with 3 beautiful L.A.S. de Rochegrosse addressed to Champollion :- The first letter, of 4 pages in-12, undated (1903?), concerns the project of illustrations for the Princesses of Theodore de Banville : " I come to announce good news to you, at least I hope you will take it as such. We'll be able, if it suits you, to work together again. I have just reached a definitive agreement with Ferroud for a new illustration which, without having as much importance as our Salammbô could nevertheless make an interesting book. It is a collection of 20 sonnets b
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