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Hardcover. Etat : Good. Ten-volume set of Honore de Balzac's "Scenes from Provincial Life," one of the interlinked collections of his "La Comedie Humaine." Published from 1897-1898. Contents include: (1) Ursule Mirouet, (2) Pierette / Le Cure de Tours, (3) La Rabouilleuse, (4) Eugenie Grandet, (5) The Lily of the Valley, (6) The Illustrious Gaudissart / The Muse of the Department, (7) The Old Maid / The Cabinet of Antiquities, (8-10) Lost Illusions: The Two Poets; A Great Provincial in Paris; and Eve and David. Each numbered #315 from an edition limited to 1,000 copies. The set is in about good or good+ condition. Contemporary brown half-leather with marbled papered boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine. General rubbing and shelf-wear, edgewear; light fading and slight cracking to the leather at spines. Top of pages edged in gilt. Spines square. Modern repair to bindings at inner hinges; in most volumes the binding is also cracked slightly at the page before half title (volumes three, five, and ten exempted). No loose or missing pages; bindings sound through textblocks. FFEP of volume four / Eugenie Grandet is chipped at fore-edge, with a long vertical closed tear extended upwards. Pages clean and bright, texts unmarked.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Gustave Greux; Claude Faivre; Henri-Joseph Dubouchet; Xavier le Sueur; Ricardo de los Rios; Nicolas-Lucien Quarante; et al. (illustrateur). Two exciting limited edition sets, complete with eleven volumes each, comprising the first translation to English of 'La Comédie Humaine' by French author Honoré de Balzac, illustrated. Two limited edition sets comprising the first complete translation of the works by Honoré de Balzac, translated by various, and limited to two hundred and fifty copies for England. These sets are out of series.Each set is complete with eleven volumes, in two groups: 'Scenes of Parisian life,' published in 1897, and 'Scenes of Private Life,' published in 1899. Containing:Scenes of Parisian Life: The Splendour and Miseries of Courtesans in two volumes; The Poor Relations: Cousin Bette; The Poor Relations: Cousin Bette, Pierre Grassou Etc; The Poor Relations: Cousin Pons; History of the Thirteen, Ferragus, La Duchesse de Langeais; Grandeu and Downfall of Caesar Birotteau; The Civil Service, A Prince of Bohemia, Gaudissart II; The House of Nucingen; and The Petty Bourgeois in two volumes.Scenes of Private Life: The House of the Cat and Racket Etc; Memoirs of Two Young Wives, Modest Mignon; A start in Life, Madame Firmiani Etc; Albert Savarus, A Daughter of Eve; The Marriage Contract, La Grenadiére Gobseck; A Woman of Thirty, The Deserted Mistress; Old Goriot; Honorine, Colonel Chabert, The Interdiction; Beatrix; and A Double Family.Balzac was a french novelist and playwright, regarded by many as the founder of realism in European literature. The volumes included in this edition form his novel sequence La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, and is generally viewed as his magnum opus; the series often reflects his real life difficulties and includes his own experiences.Illustrated with one hundred and nine illustrations [five per volume,] only lacking a plate facing page 112 'Louise de Chaulieu and the Spaniard' to Memoirs of Two Young Wives. In the original publisher's illustrated cloth binding. Externally very smart with only slight shelf wear and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Scenes of Parisian life set with a faint fading to the extremities to the front boards due to sun exposure. With minor damp markings to the second volume of 'The Splendour and Miseries of Courtesans,' as well as a minor white mark to the spine of 'Cousin Pons,' and to 'History of the Thirteen, Ferragus, La Duchesse de Langeais.' With a slight mark to the front board to 'The Interdiction,' and a minor damp marking to the front board to 'A Double Family.' robert Brooth bookplate to the front pastedown to volumes I, V, VI, of Scenes of Parisian Life, and volumes II, V, Vi, VII, VIII, and IX of Scenes of Private Life. Internally, firmly bound. Minor tidemark to the lower right gutter up to page 32, not affecting text to 'Gaudissart II.' With a faint scattered spotting to the first and last few leaves only, otherwise the pages are extremely bright and clean. Collated, illustrated with five plates per volume by various artist, only lacking plate facing page 112 'Louise de Chaulieu and the Spaniard' to 'Memoirs of Two Young Wives.' Very Good. book.