MADAME BOVARY

by Mariette Lydis, Gustave Flaubert

$3,000 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

Signed

Paris: Éditions Vialetay-Vairel, 1949. Massive and finely bound limited edition of the French classic of ennui and tragedy, signed by Austrian-Argentine artist Mariette Lydis. Near fine. Item #55849 Born in Vienna, Lydis moved to Paris in the '20s to pursue work as a painter and illustrator. During World War II, she and her partner Erica Marx fled to Buenos Aires. This work was published after Lydis returned for a time to

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