FLAUBERT (Gustave). - Lot 183

FLAUBERT (Gustave). - Hérodias. Preface by Anatole FRANCE. -- A Simple Heart. Preface by A. de CLAYE. --- La Légende de Saint Julien l'Hospitalier. Preface by Marcel SCHWOB. Paris, Librairie des amateurs, A. Ferroud, Libraire-Éditeur, 1892, 1894 & 1895. 3 volumes in-8° (157 x 247 mm) red morocco, wide frame of gilt fillets intersecting at the corners, spine ribbed and decorated with the same, gilt edges, illustrated covers and spine preserved (M. Lortic). FIRST SEPARATE EDITIONS of Flaubert's Three Tales. - 21 etchings engraved by CHAMPOLLION after Georges ROCHEGROSSE. -- 23 etchings engraved by CHAMPOLLION after Émile ADAN. --- 26 etchings engraved by GERY-BICHARD after Luc-Olivier MERSON. Issued in an edition of 500 copies, these (no. 118), initialled by the publisher, each one one of the top 200 on japon or Arches vellum, here ON JAPON. Complete with illustrated subscription forms. Copy enriched with an ADDITIONAL STATEMENT OF THE EAUX-FORTES WITH REMARKS, & an AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIT BY FLAUBERT (2 pp. in-folio with "Vente Flaubert" stamp on the v°, containing historical notes he took on the "Dismemberment of the Carlovingian Empire"). A FINE COPY IN RED MOROCCO DECORATED BY LORTIC, ENRICHED WITH A MANUSCRIPT BY FLAUBERT.