FLAUBERT (Gustave) - ROCHEGROSSE (Georges). Salammbô. Preface by Léon Hennique. Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud, 1900. - 2 volumes in-8, 269 x 175: frontispiece, (2 ff.), XXIV, 186 pp. (1 f.), illustrated cover; frontispiece, (2 ff.), 232 pp. (2 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Red morocco, first boards each adorned with a distinct frame modeled and painted in the oriental style, with the addition of fleurs-de-lys on the first volume and a helmet and flames on the second volume, a small blue pearl adorns one of the motifs in each frame; second plates decorated in the center with a medallion representing a rose on the first volume and a palm tree on the second, ribbed spine, four gilt fillets and gilt iron at the corners inside, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (period binding). Edition of 600 copies, illustrated with 50 compositions by Georges ROCHEGROSSE (1859-1938) etched by Eugène-André Champollion, including 2 frontispieces, 2 title vignettes, repeated on the covers, 18 full-page compositions, 15 chapter headings and 15 culs-de-lampe. One of 400 copies on Arches vellum (no. 436). A superb and rare copy in a period binding, each of the boards decorated with a different modelled decoration, painted on the first boards. Unsigned, it is perfectly executed and undoubtedly comes from a renowned workshop. A very well preserved copy.