Gustave Flaubert [reliures de Carayon] - Trois contes - Un coeur simple - Hérodias - La légende de Saint Julien l'hospitalier illustrés - 1892-1895

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Three Tales illustrated edition Ferroud in full morocco signed

Beautiful gathering of the three Flaubert tales, published in 3 separate illustrated volumes, from the famous Ferroud edition, Paris, Librairie des Amateurs – Ferroud. The covers and spines were preserved in the bindings and the interiors are very fresh. Note:
– Hérodias. 1892. with Compositions by Rochegrosse etched by Champollion. Preface by Anatole France no. 373 on Arches paper
– ADAM. Un cœur simple. 1894 with 23 compositions by Emile Adam, etched by Champollion, no. 380 on Arches paper
– La légende de saint-Julien l’Hospitalier. 1895, no. 380 on Arches paper with 26 compositions by Luc-Olivier Merson etched by Géry-Bichard, preface by Marcel Schwob, no. 380 on Arches paper

Provenance: Georges Pierre François (aka Geo) Valdelièvre, Lille, 1845 – Loos, 1932 (gold monogram at the foot of the upper boards).

These three octavo volumes are presented in uniform contemporary bindings signed by Carayon: dark green morocco, smooth spine adorned with a set of long rules and large fleurons, author, title and date in gold, boards framed by multiple rules, with large angular fleurons, and the monogram at the foot of the upper board, all gilt, double gilt rule at the edges, endpapers bordered with morocco decorated by a quadruple gilt rule, gilt edges on the turn-ins, covers preserved (spines and edges of the boards uniformly browned with some rubbing). The joints are fragile, notably for La légende de saint-Julien l’Hospitalier. 1895 with the upper joint very cracked (see the photos of the bindings that are part of the description).