FLAUBERT (Gustave). Madame Bovary. Preface by Léon Hennique. Paris : Librairie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud, F. Ferroud successeur, 1905. - In-4, 304 x 223: (4 ff. first blank), IV, 334 pp., (1 f.), illustrated cover. Jansenist Havana morocco, spine ribbed, green morocco lining edged with a gold fillet and decorated with a frame composed of red morocco scrolls forming compartments decorated with gold fillets and motifs, Havana moiré silk endpapers, marbled paper double endpapers , gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, case (Semet and Plumelle). Edition of 600 copies. This is a unique copy, on Whatman paper, whose original compositions by Alfred de Richemont have been replaced by 27 original watercolours in colour by the painter and illustrator Fred Money (1882-1956), one of which appears on the title, 6 in the text and 20 out of text. It bears the justification, the indication written by the artist, signed by him and by François Ferroud: "Copy decorated with original watercolours". Fred Money had been a pupil of Georges Antoine Rochegrosse at the Paris School of Fine Arts. Painter especially of landscapes, friend of Auguste Renoir, he was influenced by the impressionists. He illustrated numerous works by Daudet, Dumas, Loti, Louÿs and Flaubert, notably Madame Bovary in 1947. " The delicacy of his touch and the freshness of his palette, enlivened by an in-depth work on light, make his work a fine example of Impressionist art" (Benezit). The watercolours in this copy were done in 1928-1929, as the artist indicates in one of the two L.A.S. attached to the copy, addressed in all likelihood to François Ferroud. The first one, one and a half pages in-12, is dated September 25, 1928: "At the same time as this little note, I am sending you by registered mail a series of watercolors that I have just executed from nature in the setting where Flaubert made his Madame Bovary characters live and move. I found there th