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Offered with an archive of more than a hundred items spanning the course ofFarrar’s creative output from teenage to old age, the majority of which are originalpen and ink drawings with the occasional addition of a watercolour wash. ArthurFarrar was born in 1895 in Halifax and attended the Camberwell School of Art. Hisarchive includes advertising works, cartoons for newspapers (Farrar was employedby the Blackpool Times as resident cartoonist), some of wartime interest,contributions to The Transporter, the magazine of the London Passenger TransportBoard workers, drawings accompanied by his own humorous verses on a variety ofsubjects, and an incomplete autobiography. A complete listing is available onrequest.MADAME BOVARY, C’EST MOI42. FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Moeurs de province. Paris, MichelLévy frères, 1857.Two vols, 12mo, pp. [4], 232, 36 [publisher’s catalogue dated April 1857]; [4], [233]-490, [2, blank]; with a half-title in each volume; a fine copy, untrimmed, in earlyhalf dark green morocco by Canape, preserving the original green printed wrappers.£7500First edition in book form of Flaubert’s first and most famous novel and oneof the most iconic works of the nineteenth century. This is the first issue,with the dedication leaf reading ‘Senart’ rather than ‘Senard’.The serialization of Madame Bovary in La Revue de Paris in October-December1856, resulted in Flaubert’s prosecution for obscenity in January 1857. And hissubsequent acquittal in February assured the book’s lasting fame.This is the regular issue; a small number of copies appeared on papier vélin fortwith continuous signatures, omitting the second title-page.43. FOUNDLING HOSPITAL. The Royal Charter establishing an Hospital for theMaintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children. London,printed for Thomas Osborne, 1746.Large 8vo, pp. 48; first two leaves slightly spotted, but a very good copy, incontemporary vellum backed marbled boards, with ink lettering on spine; from thelibrary of the Earls of Macclesfield with their bookplate (George, 2 nd Earl ofMacclesfield was a founding Governor of the Foundling Hospital, as indeed wasWilliam Hogarth). £850In October 1745 the Foundling Hospital received its first infants (maximum age ofadmission was two months) at their newly built premises in Bloomsbury(demolished in 1926). The charity was very much the creation of Thomas Coramand thanks to the support of the Queen and a host of rich and influentialgovernors, the Foundling Hospital soon became London’s most popular andfashionable charity.ESTC lists copies at British Library and Oxford and 4 copies in US (Huntington,Colorado, McGill, and National Library of Medicine).