Title: Madame Bovary: "Moeurs de Province"
Author: Flaubert, Gustave
Publication: Paris: Editions Vialetay-Vairel, 1949.
Description: Folio-sized edition of Madame Bovary, illustrated with 30 full-page black-and-white lithographs by Mariette Lydis. Edition limited to 254 copies, including 56 H.C. (hors-commerce) or artists' copies. This is one of the 30 H.C. copies (number xvi, signed by the artist). In custom binding, by an unknown designer for the gallerist Isy Brachot, of full teal goatskin, with gilt lettering, black goatskin onlay of Madame Bovary, gilt turn-ins (stamped "Brachot"), decorated endpapers, and top edge gilt. In a slipcase covered in decorated paper, with goatskin edges and a lined interior. 13.25 x 10.5 inches; [2], 426, [6] pages. Rather sunned spine, bumped corners, and significant wear to slipcase, else a clean copy in a beautiful binding. Very Good+ in a Good only slipcase. Mariette Lydis (1887-1970) was an Austrian-born painter, illustrator, and printmaker. While living in Paris in the 1930s, she escaped the Nazi regime with her partner Erica Marx, living briefly in England, before settling in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is known for exploring lesiban and bisexual relationships in her artwork. Note: The colophon states that the book was printed in 1950, while the title page gives a publication date of 1949.
