Madame Bovary (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

viii, [2], 348 pp. 8vo. Original blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Flaubert's moving tale of a woman living beyond her means. Translated from the original French by J. Lewis May, with an introduction by Jacques de Lacretelle, illustrations by Pierre Brissaud, and wood engravings by Theo Schmied.