[LITERATURE]

[LITERATURE] FIRST EDITION of *Madame Bovary* FLAUBERT (Gustave): *Madame Bovary*. Provincial Life. Paris. Michel Lévy frères, 1857/ 2 volumes, in-12°. Simple half-cloth binding in green. 490 pages. Continuous pagination. Without the covers. First edition. The bookbinder deemed it necessary to remove the pages containing the dedication “to Marie-Antoine-Jules Sénart,” that is, Sénard, the lawyer who defended the famous case involving this novel, which was prosecuted by the Seine Distric

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