BALZAC, Honoré de. Complete works. La Comédie humaine. - Lot 205

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BALZAC, Honoré de. Complete works. La Comédie humaine. - Lot 205
BALZAC, Honoré de. Complete works. La Comédie humaine. Paris, Alexandre Houssiaux, 1855. 20 volumes in-8, blond glazed half calf, cold-framed ribbed spines, gilt author and tomaison on red and green leather parts, speckled edges. Contemporary binding. Approx. 500 pages per volume, 1 copper-engraved portrait after Bertall as frontispiece to volume 1, a few in-texts and approx. 140 wood-engraved hors-texte plates after Tony Johannot, Bertall, Monnier, Français, Nanteuil, etc. Rubbing, some browning on leather, scattered foxing. An excellent edition of Balzac's complete works, illustrated with over 130 hors-texte plates by the best artists of the period, including Bertall, Daumier, Gavarni and Johannot. This is a reprint of the famous Furne et Houssiaux edition of 1842-1855, augmented by a notice by George Sand, a portrait of Balzac and three new volumes (Théâtre, Contes drôlatiques...). [Vicaire, I, 246-247]. Complete work in 20 volumes. A solid copy of the period, well established and identical.
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