FLAUBERT, Gustave. [UCAD BINDINGS] - Lot 177

FLAUBERT, Gustave. [UCAD BINDINGS] Three bound titles. Paris, Louis Conard, 1902–1915. 3 in-8 volumes, bindings marked UCAD (spines faded, scuffing, or slight wear). - *The Temptation of Saint Anthony*. Appendix: 1849 and 1856 versions, 1910. Fauve morocco with black ribbons, spine with four raised bands, black author’s and title labels, black head, cover preserved. - *Pensées* by Gustave Flaubert. 1915. Contemporary fawn calfskin, geometric gold and brown decoration on the upper covers and spine, author’s name and title handwritten along the spine, brown and gold fillet framing on the lower cover, in a marbled slipcase. - *Madame Bovary: Provincial Customs*. 1902. Red sheepskin, spine with four raised bands, blue author and title labels, blue mosaic bouquet on the top cover, violet silk on the endpapers and half-leaves, cover and spine preserved. Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller and lover of bookbindings, a flutist, and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were staged primarily in the Paris region.