FLAUBERT (Gustave). Lot n° 43

Three Tales. A Simple Heart. Herodias. The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller. Paris, Librairie de France, F. Sant'Andrea and L. Marcerou, 1924. In-4, grey morocco, pieces of purple mosaic calf on two corners and the upper part of the first plate and the spine, geometrical composition evoking a musical staff composed of straight and curved fillets as well as squares of purple morocco and gilt running through the plates and the spine, spine decorated with the title in figures and letters of mosaic purple calf, lining of purple calf with grey morocco frames decorated with gilt fillets and squares, grey brocaded silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine, flap folder decorated with the same mosaic composition as the binding, case (Max Fonsèque). Beautiful illustrated edition of the Three Tales, with illustrations by Félix Vallotton for Un Coeur simple, by René Picot for Hérodias and by Antoine Bourdelle for La Légende de Saint Julien l'Hospitalier. One of the 12 first copies on hollande containing three large original watercolors (15 x 20 cm) signed by Antoine Bourdelle. Superb copy in a mosaic Art Deco binding by Max Fonsèque. Spine of the folder faded.