LA COMEDIE HUMAINE 18 Volumes At the Sign of the Cat and Racket, Chouans, Eugenie Grandet, Quest of the Absolute, Ursule Mirouet, Wild Ass's Skin, Atheist's Mass, Bachelor's Establishment, Beatrix, La Grande Breteche, Old Goriot, Peasantry, Pierette
J.M. Dent and Co., 1895-1898. Item #181229
18 vols. 8vo. Original gilt decorated uniform green cloth, top edge gilt (spines faded and endpapers rather toned - otherwise a VG set). Pp. various, titles printed in red and black illus with b&w plates most with tissue-guard (previous owners' neat inscriptions on front endpapers of some vols). At the Sign of the Cat and Racket (1895), The Chouans (1895), Eugenie Grandet (1895), The Quest of the Absolute (1895), Ursule Mirouet (1895), The Wild Ass's Skin (1895), Atheist's Mass and Other Stories (1896), A Bachelor's Establishment (1896), Beatrix (1896), La Grande Breteche and Other Stories (1896), Old Goriot (1896), The Peasantry (1896), Pierette and the Abbe Birotteau (1896), The Cousin Pons (1897), The Lily of the Valley (1897), Lost Illusions (1897), A Princess's Secrets (1898), The Thirteen (1898).
Price: £120.00