Georges ROCHEGROSSE Lot n° 290

Gustave FLAUBERT - Salammbô. Compositions by Georges ROCHEGROSSE engraved with etching by CHAMPOLLION. Preface by Léon Hennique. Paris, A. Ferroud, 1900. 2 volumes large in-8, 275 x 180 mm, binding signed by Chambolle-Duru, havana morocco, boards decorated with 3 sets of gilt fillets, spine with five nerves, caissons decorated with fillets, inner border, gilt head, covers preserved (bit of the upper cover of T. I cracked on 2 cm). [4], xxiv, 186, [1], [1 bl.]; [4], 232, [1], [1 bl.] pp. 52 illustrations: 1 different cover vignette for each volume repeated on the title page, 2 frontispieces, 15 chapter headings, 15 lamp-heads and 18 full-page compositions. Edition printed at 600 copies. This one, on Arches, reserved for Jérôme Doucet and initialed by the publisher. EXAMPLE WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING SIGNED, on the false title of the first volume. Provenance: armorial bookplate of President de Viefville. Monod, I, 4693. A fine copy.