Madame Bovary
Subtitle: moeurs de province
Publisher: Aux bureaux de la Revue de Paris
Published: 1856
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Portrait
Notes: Text sheets extracted from the 6 issues of the Revue de Paris, 1 Oct. to 15 Dec. 1856, in which the work first appeared; furnished with half-title & t.-p. by the publishers.

The text was corrected and omissions restored in the 1st authorized volume ed., by Michel Lévy, in 1857.

Contains the bookplate of Léon Schück. Tipped in at front are a caricature port. of Flaubert by Uzès clipped from Chronique médicale, 1 Nov. 1900, and an A.L.s. (Georges Vicaire) to [Léon Schück]; Saint-Germain en Laye, 19 Aug. 1896; 1s. (3 p.) thanking him for information on Flaubert. Vicaire in his Manuel (III, 721-722) credits Schück with supplying a transcription of the half-title & t.-p. to this ed.

Full brown morocco (by Marius Michel); edges gilt; original printed yellow wrappers of the 6 issues & half-titles & t.-p.'s to vols. 39 & 40 of the Revue de Paris bound at back.