Text composed at Curwen, printed in New York; wood-engravings printed in Paris.

[1-23]⁸; inserts after [1]2 [3]6+8 [4]8 [5]8 [6]8 [7]8 [8]8 [10]8 [11]8 [12]8 [13]8 [14]8 [14]8 [15]8 [16]8 [17]8 [19]8 [20]8 [21]8 [22]8.

[6] v-viii [ix] x [xi-xiv] 1-348 [+4].

Imperial 8^o: 11¾" × 7½", trimmed, artificial head- and tail-bands, white wove, watermarked ‘MADAME BOVARY’; 12(+2)pt. Ehrhardt; colour wood engravings on inserts; casing, spine white leather,labelled: ‘[within a double-rule border] Madame | Bovary’, boards, gold French damask with rhomboid pattern, slip-case covered in blue-grey paper with label.

[9th (and last in this form) of The Ten Great French Romances]

The Curwen Library copy is described above, and has circular embossed 'OUT OF SERIES' stamp of the Limited Editions Club below Brissaud's signature. Note the trimmed page size is larger than that of ZHia.

The B.L. copy is not a legal deposit copy, but is stamped in green 5/Apr/1952 as a donation; B.L. Corporate Archive confirms that it was given by George Macy, Managing Director of the Limited Editions Club of New York; see also ZFh.

It is clear that the production of ZHi, like that of ZFh, was disrupted by World War II. A chronology can be built on Dreyfus 1981 cat.117a and other sources as follows:

• 1886: Eleanor Marx-Aveling's translation of the French édition définitive of Madame Bovary was published by Vizetelly (COPAC).
• 1928: J. Lewis May's translation published, New York, Dodd,Mead & Co.(COPAC).
• 1939, July: Madame Bovary was announced (Nonesuch News 5).
• 1940: Francis Meynell decided to tackle Madame Bovary; specimen pages were prepared using Eleanor Marx-Aveling's translation; Pierre Brissaud completed his colour illustrations for Madame Bovary.
• 1940, 14 June: German forces occupied Paris.
• by 1948: Meynell decided to use 1928 translation by J. Lewis May; this was revised by A. S. B. Glover.
• This text was set by Curwen, stereotyped, and shipped to U.S.A, but some plates were damaged.
• 1948?: The damaged pages were reset in America.
• [after end of War]: Théo Schmied re-established his Paris atelier.
• 1948?: Schmied reproduced Brissaud's paintings by multiple wood-engravings.
• 1950, April: These were used in an edition by the Limited Editions Club ZHi.
• 1950: Madame Bovary was announced in Heritage Club's Sandglass VIII: 15
• 1950: Shortly afterwards the Heritage/Nonesuch edition ZHia appeared, using the same illustrations, but slightly reduced in size and in black on cream.

See Dreyfus 1981 cat.117b: 'published 1950', but no day or month given; 'Apparently not published in England' [therefore no legal deposit required there!]; the 9th (and last in this form) of the Ten Great French Romances, printed by the Ferris Printing Co. New York, on laid paper made specially by the Crocker-Burbank Paper Co., Massachusetts; illustrations printed black on a cream tint. Dreyfus details choices of translators and editor, damage to stereos while being shipped across the Atlantic, and how Brissaud's illustrations were reproduced by Schmied after Paris was liberated, used in colour for this April 1950 edition ZHi, then slightly reduced and used (in black on cream) for the Heritage/Nonesuch edition ZHia. No price stated.

• Brissaud, Pierre, b. 1885
• Ehrhardt
  • 1650-1702, Leipzig, by Nicholas Kis;
  • 1938, Monotype
• Ehrhardt, 12pt.
• Flaubert, Gustave, 1821–1880 IMDb
• Ingham, Ernest, 1894–1976
• Lacretelle, Jacques de, 1888–1985 Munzinger
• Limited Editions Club
  • Founded 1929 by George Macy, publications usually 1,500 copies, often reprinted by Heritage Press at cheaper price.
• May, J. Lewis (James Lewis), 1873–
• Meynell, Francis, 1891–1975 NPG ODNB
  • founder of Pelican Press, and Nonesuch Press, see Simon 1973 p.168.
• Ten great French romances

NOT YET VERIFIED, Description follows Dreyfus.

As ZHi.

See Dreyfus 1981 cat.117b: 9⅞" × 6½", all edges trimmed, head- and tail-bands, 9⅞", white laid; 12(+2)pt. Ehrhardt; wood engravings on inserts; casing, quarter violet buckram lettered in gilt up the spine: ‘Madame Bovary’, with ‘Flaubert’ across head, and ‘Nonesuch’ at tail, boards lithographed cloth decorated with fleur de lys violet and cream check pattern; issued in glassine wrappers in plain paper covered slip-case.

'published 1950', but no day or month given; 'Apparently not published in England'; the 9th (and last in this form) of the Ten Great French Romances, printed by the Ferris Printing Co., New York on laid paper made specially by the Crocker-Burbank Paper Co., Massachusetts; illustrations printed black on a cream tint.

• Brissaud, Pierre, b. 1885
• Ehrhardt
  • 1650-1702, Leipzig, by Nicholas Kis;
  • 1938, Monotype
• Ehrhardt, 12pt.
• Flaubert, Gustave, 1821–1880 IMDb
• Heritage Press, New York
  • From 1935–1982 one of George Macy's imprints; associated with the Heritage Club;
  • published many reprints of works from the Limited Editions Club which was more expensive.
• Lacretelle, Jacques de, 1888–1985 Munzinger
• May, J. Lewis (James Lewis), 1873–
• Meynell, Francis, 1891–1975 NPG ODNB
  • founder of Pelican Press, and Nonesuch Press, see Simon 1973 p.168.
• Nonesuch Press
  • founded by Francis Meynell; in 1936 George Macy became Managing Director; see Simon (1956) pp.28-29 for relation with Hobson, Lewis and Morison.
• Ten great French romances