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c1895-9 La Comédie Humaine
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The complete magnum opus of French novelist Honoré de Balzac 'La Comedie Humaine' in beautiful uniform Riverside Press half crushed morocco bindings.
Undated Paris edition published by George Barrie, comprised of forty-five volumes in uniform leather bindings signed Riverside Press, in the original French. Present are vols. 1-5 and 7-46. Dated from date provided on plates. Each complete with half title.
Edition Definitive limited to one-hundred copies, this number ninety-nine. Limitation given to verso half-title vol. 21, all volumes printed on fine Japon vellum paper.
Each volume featuring full page plates by a variety of artists including Gaston Bussiere, Pierre Vidal, Georges Cain, Robaudi, Daniel Hernandez, Edouard Toudouze, and others.
Included in the series are the following:
Esther, with nine full page plates;
Un Drame sans les Prisons; La derniere Incarnation de Vautrin with eight full page plates;
Cesar Birotteau, with seven full page plates;
La Cousine Bette, with nine full page plates;
Le Cousin Pons, with eight full page plates;
Eugenie Grandet with seven full page plates;
Le Lys dans la Vallee with eight plates;
Les Paysans, with eight plates;
La Peau de Chagrin, with eight plates;
Histoire des Treize, with nine full page plates;
Les Employes &c. with eight full page plates;
La Maison Nucingen, with five full page plates;
Les Petits Bourgeois in two volumes, sixteen full page plates;
La Femme de Trente Ans with eight full page plates;
Ursule Mirouet with seven plates;
Les Celibataires in two volumes, illustrated with sixteen full page plates;
Les Chouans with eight plates;
Physiologie du Mariage with ten full page plates;
Petites Miseres de la Vie Conjugale with four full page plates;
La Recherche de l'Absolu with nine full page plates;
La Maison du Chat qui Pelote with eight plates;
L'Enfant Maudit with eight plates;
La Cure de Village with eight plates;
Le Medicin de Campagne with five full page plates;
Le Depute d'Arcis with eight full page plates;
Une Tenebreuse Affaire with three full page plates;
Illusions Perdues in three volumes, with twenty-three full page plates;
La Vieille Fille with seven full page plates;
Beatrix with seven full page plates;
Madame de la Chanterie with seven full page plates;
Louis Lambert with nine full page plates;
Honorine with eight full page plates;
Colonel Chabert with ten full page plates;
Memoires de Deux Jeunes Mariées with eight full page plates;
Le Contrat de Mariage with eight full page plates;
Modeste Mignon, with six plates;
Sur Catherine de Medicis with five full page plates;
Les Marana with eight full page plates;
Un Debut dans la Vie with seven full page plates;
Le Conte Drolatique in two volumes, with thirteen full page plates.
Rebound in exquisite half crushed morocco uniform bindings over cloth covered boards signed Riverside Press, with five raised bands, gilt tooling to spine, renewed endpapers, edges in gilt. Externally excellent with minor shelf wear, occasional minor rubbing to head and tail of spine, back strip lightly faded. Minor chipping to front board odd volume. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Occasional leaf unopened. Illustrations protected with protective tissue guards.
Overall: Near Fine
- Creator:Honoré de Balzac 1 (Author)
- Dimensions:Height: 9 in (22.86 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)Depth: 5.3 in (13.47 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1895-1896
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- Seller Location:Bath, GB
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