by Gustave Flaubert.

Translated from French to English by J. Lewis May.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, (1978).

Collector's Edition, The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Series.

Frontispiece portrait art by Richard Sparks specially commissioned for this Easton Press Collector's edition.

Nineteen plate illustrations by Pierre Brissaud were originally created in with brush and pen have been sensitively transferred to wood engravings by Theo Schmied.

A presentable classic gift.

Easton Press bookplate, with former owner's name typed-in, attached to the verso of the front end-paper, mild surface white-shelf scuff to the lower shelf-edges, else near fine, tight and firm in rich-blue leather with patterned gilt embossed decorations to the front and rear covers, gilt embossed decorations and titles to the raised four-band hubbed spine, blue-and-yellow headband and tail-band, all page edges gilt, sea-blue satin-moire end-papers, and a sewn-in silk ribbon marker.

10.25" by 6.8" by 1.75"; 348 pages; plus introduction, and publisher's preface.

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