Paris N.D.: Societe Des Beaux Arts Book. Illus. by Emile Adan. Very Good. Cloth. Numbered. First Edition thus. #375/1000 copies "for England and America". Octavo, brown cloth with paper title label on spiine, top edge gilt and other edges untrimmed. 118 pp. Each novel has 24 monotone plates in each plus frontispiece in green, purple, rose, black and white, sepia, as the case may be. A sound copy with mostly unblemished interior, (no marks, signatures, undrelinings etc.) with worn corners to boards and wear along spine edge. Title label darkened and creased. Very good minus. A very uncommon edition of Flaubert in English..

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Bookseller: Brillig Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 09820
Title: A Simple Heart and Herodias
Author: Flaubert, Gustav
Illustrator: Emile Adan
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Edition: Numbered
Publisher: Societe Des Beaux Arts
Place of Publication: Paris N.D.
Keywords: ADAN, ILLUSTRATED, LUXEMBOURG, LIMITED, TRANSLATION, FLAUBERT, SIMPLE, HEART, HERODIAS, BIBLE, BIBLICAL, FRENCH, FRANCE, EDITION, ILLUSTRATIONS, ILLUSTRATOR
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Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Top Edge Gilt: Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...