A BACHELOR'S ESTABLISHMENT BY H. DE BALZAC 1896 ILLUSTRATED LIMITED EDITION

A BACHELOR'S ESTABLISHMENT BY H. DE BALZAC 1896 ILLUSTRATED LIMITED EDITION

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[BALZAC, H. DE]. A Bachelor's Establishment (Un Ménage de Garçon). London: J. M. Dent and Co., MDCCCXCVI. [1896].

First edition thus. Limited illustrated edition no. 4 of 50 (hand-numbered on limitation page). Cloth-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (215 x 145 x 35 mm.). Pp. xi, 324. Translated from the original French of H. de Balzac, into English by Clara Bell; with a preface by George Saintsbury. Bound in publisher's original cloth. Top edge gilt, other edges rough cut. Initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present. 6 illustrated plates drawn and executed by D. Murray-Smith. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the hinges intact. Covers clean with minute rubbing to edges. Interior clean with some browning to plates. Some leaves remain uncut.

Notes: One of de Balzac's Comédie Humaine edited by George Saintsbury.