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Title

Les contes drolatiques, colligez ez abbayes de Touraine et mis en lumière par le sieur de Balzac pour l'esbattement des Pantagruelistes et non aultres.

Author

Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.

Publication

Paris : Soc. générale de librairie, 1855.

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Additional Authors

Doré, Gustave

Description

xxxi(i), 614 p., 1 l.; 8̕.

Subject

• Fiction French

Note

• First impression. One of the few copies on India paper.
• Binding, by Marius Michel, 1909, of black crushed levant morocco. Sides surrounded by a three line fillet tooled in blind, enclosing an inlaid panel of gutta percha; front panel embossed with an oak leaf scroll intertwined at the top with a ribbon lettered: Une drachme de joyeulsetez; pendant from the scroll, a shield stamped with a figure from the vignette on the title-page; back panel embossed with a vine and clusters of grapes. Doublé with red morocco, gilt. Center panel plain, within a border of conventionalized oak leaves inlaid in black, and surrounded by an inlaid rame of black morocco with an inner and outer fillet in gilt. Back lettered in blind. With gilt edges, marbled end papers, and lining of black figured silk. In loose leather protective cover, tooled and lettered, and inserted in slip case.
• Bookplate of W. A. Spencer and of the Bibliothèque de Paul de Saint-Victor.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1855

OCLC

131738396

Author

Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.

Title

Les contes drolatiques, colligez ez abbayes de Touraine et mis en lumière par le sieur de Balzac pour l'esbattement des Pantagruelistes et non aultres.

Imprint

Paris : Soc. générale de librairie, 1855.

Edition

Cinquiesme édition. Illustrée de 425 dessins par Gustave Doré.

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Added Author

Doré, Gustave, ill.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1855