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DORÉ (Gustave | 1832-1883) - BALZAC (Honoré de | 1799-1850).
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DORÉ (Gustave | 1832-1883) - BALZAC (Honoré de | 1799-1850).
Les contes drolatiques... Fifth edition...
Paris : Société générale de librairie, 1855.
Fort in-8 (210 x 140 mm), frontispiece, XXXI-(1)-614-(1) pages. Half havana morocco with later corners, spine with gold titled boards, gilt head, bookmark preserved.
First edition of the 425 illustrations by Gustave Doré.
The text was revised on the author's manuscript by Paul Lacroix, who made some linguistic corrections. This illustrated edition is in fact the fourth.
"This is Doré's early masterpiece| indeed, Beraldi thought it the most likely to endure of all his books." (Gordon Ray).
Complete with its Table of Drawings, the Bookseller's Warning.
Carteret III, p.48| Vicaire I, 190| Leblanc, Catalogue de l'œuvre complet de Gustave Doré, p. 39| Gordon Ray, pp. 331-332.
A fine copy (despite scattered foxing).
Les contes drolatiques... Fifth edition...
Paris : Société générale de librairie, 1855.
Fort in-8 (210 x 140 mm), frontispiece, XXXI-(1)-614-(1) pages. Half havana morocco with later corners, spine with gold titled boards, gilt head, bookmark preserved.
First edition of the 425 illustrations by Gustave Doré.
The text was revised on the author's manuscript by Paul Lacroix, who made some linguistic corrections. This illustrated edition is in fact the fourth.
"This is Doré's early masterpiece| indeed, Beraldi thought it the most likely to endure of all his books." (Gordon Ray).
Complete with its Table of Drawings, the Bookseller's Warning.
Carteret III, p.48| Vicaire I, 190| Leblanc, Catalogue de l'œuvre complet de Gustave Doré, p. 39| Gordon Ray, pp. 331-332.
A fine copy (despite scattered foxing).