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Sept Eaux-Fortes pour Illustrer Madame Bovary ... Dessinées et Gravées par E. Boilvin

Boilvin, Emile. Flaubert, Gustave

Paris. Alphonse Lemerre. 1883
The separate suite of Boilvin's etchings for Flaubert's Madame Bovary.

Emile Boilvin's etchings were produced as illustrations for Flaubert's first novel, Madame Bovary. First published in two volumes 1857 by Michel Lévy Frères, Boilvin's etchings were produced in 1876 to add to the edition issued by Lemerre in 1874; the series presented here were issued later, in 1883.
16mo. (202 x 146 mm). Etched title and six etched plates by Boilvin after his original drawings. Loose as issued in publisher's cloth-backed printed board portfolio with titles and publisher's vignette to front board.
#20489

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