BALZAC, Honoré de. Repertory of La Comédie Humaine. With illustrations. 2 vols. The Caxton Publishing Co. (Caxton Edition.) 1900
Half titles, fronts, plates, facsims. Untrimmed in orig. green cloth, spines lettered in gilt, publisher's monogram in gilt on front boards. t.e.g. A v.g. bright copy.
¶Translated by George B. Ives. With a full list of translated titles, giving the original French titles, the date of first publication, and the division of the Human Comedy in which each story appeared. The stories first appeared 1829-1848. These translations were first published by Leonard Smithers in a Subscribers Only edition, c.1895-99; this is the first widely available edition.
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£120
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