Antique Leather Bound Balzac Books, Set 18

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Beautiful leather bound French style collection of Honoré Balzac books. Rich cognac leather with marbled covers and marbled end papers. … Read more Beautiful leather bound French style collection of Honoré Balzac books. Rich cognac leather with marbled covers and marbled end papers. Each volume has a vellum protecting an engraved print.

Published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., NY. No printer's date in the volumes, but in research has identified these as being produced sometime between 1880s - 1910's.

These works comprise his interconnected works collectively titled La Comeédie Humane (The Human Comedy). Individual titles are as follows:

The Thirteen / Father Goriot
Physiology of Marriage / Vautrin
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
A Daughter of Eve / A Woman of Thirty
A Marriage Settlement / Modeste Mignon
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life / Government Clerks
Beatrix / Jealousies of a Country Town
Lost Illusions / A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Cousin Bette / Cousin Pons
Lily of the Valley / Firm of Nucingen / Country Doctor
The Chouans / Gondreville Mystery
The Magic Skin / Quest of the Absolute
César Birotteau / Secrets of a Princess / The Middle Class
The Stepfather / Mercadet
Country Parson / Albert Savarus / The Peasantry
About Catherine de' Medici / Gambara
Member for Arcis / Seamy Side of History
Eugénie Grandet / Ursule Mirouët See less