FLAUBERT G.
MISS BOVARY
POWIEŚĆ
Warsaw 1914, in Gebethner & Wolff Bookstore, p. X 446, format: 12x19.5 cm
First Polish edition!
Mrs. Bovary - a realistic-psychological novel by Gustave Flaubert, published in 1857, about the love of a naive widower - Dr. Charles Bovary - for his patient's seemingly virtuous daughter Emma Rouault. In the book, the author shows the downfall of a woman already at the moment of her marriage.
The work was placed in the index librorum prohibitorum by decree of 1864.
HARDCOVER FULL LEATHER CONTEMPORARY IN STYLE WITH REFERENCE TO THE EXQUISITE BINDINGS OF THE PERIOD, FLAT SPINE WITH RICH EMBOSSING AND GILDED TITLING, COVERS SURROUNDED BY A STRIKING GILDED BORDER. MARBLED PAPER LINING, PAGE EDGES MARBLED WITH THE SAME PATTERN. INTERIOR OF COVERS FINISHED IN GILT ROLL.
BDB condition-/ a BAD piece
