Flaubert (Gustave) - Jourdain (Henri) *Through Fields and Sh - Lot 28

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Flaubert (Gustave) - Jourdain (Henri) *Through Fields and Sh - Lot 28
Flaubert (Gustave) - Jourdain (Henri) *Through Fields and Shores*. Paris: Carteret, 1924. 1 volume, in-4°, bound in full dark green morocco, with a slipcase in green half-moroquin with a band, and a bordered slipcase. Spine with raised bands featuring the author’s name and title in gold, blind-stamped and gold-stamped fillets, and a mosaic band framing the blind-stamped fillets in lighter green morocco. Similar decoration on the covers. All edges gilt on endpapers; inner covers in green morocco framed by a gold fillet. Flying endpapers of green moiré. (Bound by Semet and Plumelle). Spine of the dust jacket sun-faded. Cover and spine preserved. The work was printed in an edition of 225 copies on Rives vellum; this is no. 47. The book is illustrated with fifty-three original color etchings by Henri Jourdain. This copy is enhanced with a lovely original full-page color watercolor depicting Rosporden, signed by Henri Jourdain. At the end of the book is a black-and-white sequence of the illustrations. Superb illustrations depicting Brittany as Flaubert described it. A perfect copy, free of foxing, in a superb binding expertly crafted by Marcellin Semet and Georges Plumelle.
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