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Bouvard and Pecuchet
by Gustave Flaubert
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
£40.00£32.00
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About This Item
London: H S Nichols, 1896 Book. Poor. Blue Decorated Boards. Authorised Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Novel, 458pp, translated from the French and with an introduction by D F Hannigan. Title page printed in red and black, chapter heads and footers printed in red. 'Illustrated with nine original designs after S Gorski', one is missing, the rest present and tissue-guarded. One of the designs is repeated in gilt to the front board. Gilt design to spine, top edges gilt, the rest untrimmed and age-toned. Left hinge broken, right hinge cracked and internal hinge cracked at the point where the missing illustration would have appeared. Spine darkened, with three small tears to the backstrip. Text-block relatively clean, reading copy only of this scarce edition..
Synopsis
Bouvard et Pécuchet is an unfinished satirical work by Gustave Flaubert, published in 1881 after his death in 1880. Although conceived in 1863 as Les Deux Cloportes ("The Two Woodlice"), and partially inspired by a short story of Barthélemy Maurice (Les Deux Greffiers, "The Two Court Clerks", which appeared in La Revue des Tribunaux in 1841 and which he may have read in 1858), Flaubert did not begin the work in earnest until 1872, at a time when financial ruin threatened.
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- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004997
- Title
- Bouvard and Pecuchet
- Author
- Gustave Flaubert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Authorised Edition
- Publisher
- H S Nichols
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1896
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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