FLAUBERT (Gustave). Un Coeur simple. Preface by A. de Claye. Paris: Librairie des amateurs, A. Ferroud, 1894. - In-8, 242 x 156: frontispiece, (2 ff.), XVIII pp., (1 f.), 79 pp., (2 ff. last blank), 9 plates, illustrated cover. Jansenist olive morocco, ribbed spine, havana morocco lining decorated with chased, modeled, mosaic and painted decoration representing on the first the figure of Félicité hanging out her laundry and on the second a poppy, salmon moiré silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved (R. Raparlier). First separate edition, illustrated with 23 etchings by Émile ADAM, including 10 hors texte. It was printed in an edition of 500 numbered copies. One of 100 copies on Japon paper or Arches vellum, this one on Arches vellum, including two states of the etchings, avant la lettre avec remarque and avec la lettre. A superbly bound copy by Paul-Romain Raparlier, who adorned the linings with a perfectly executed composition of modeled, chased, mosaiced and painted ox leather. Enriched with the publication prospectus Spine and edges of boards faded. Provenance: Ex-libris engraved by Stern, with monogram.