BALZAC, Honoré de and QUINT, Jean-Paul. *Le Père Goriot*. - Lot 28

BALZAC, Honoré de and QUINT, Jean-Paul. *Le Père Goriot*. A charming illustrated edition, printed on vellum and bound in an attractive Flammarion-Vaillant binding. Paris, Kieffer, 1922. Quarto, half-maroquin in coarse pine-green grain with corner pieces, spine with four raised bands, panels adorned with a central embossed design accented with gold fillets and dots, covers and spine preserved, gilt head, untrimmed. Binding by Flammarion-Vaillant. 317 pp., frontispiece, and numerous color illustrations throughout the text. Spine slightly sun-faded. A beautiful edition richly illustrated by Jean-Paul Quint (1884–1953). Limited edition of 550 copies; this is one of the 450 numbered on vellum (no. 312). A fine copy in an attractive binding by Flammarion-Vaillant, who was active from 1900 to 1956.