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Honoré de BALZAC. L'Ecole des Ménages. Bourgeois tragedy in 5 acts and prose. Posthumous work. Illustrated first edition. Paris, Carteret, 1907, in-4 bound in full morocco, spine ribbed and decorated with gilded fleurons and fillets, decorated mosaic boards, morocco backstrip, moiré and flamed paper endpapers, gilt edges, cover and spine preserved, presented in slipcase. Binding signed Visinand. Illustrated with a portrait after Bertall, decoration by A. Robaudi, engraved by Manesse. First edition limited to 300 numbered copies, one of 75 deluxe copies on Japon (n°56), with a double state before the letter of the portrait. A very fine copy.
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Honoré de BALZAC. L'Ecole des Ménages. Bourgeois tragedy in 5 acts and prose. Posthumous work. Illustrated first edition. Paris, Carteret, 1907, in-4 bound in full morocco, spine ribbed and decorated with gilded fleurons and fillets, decorated mosaic boards, morocco backstrip, moiré and flamed paper endpapers, gilt edges, cover and spine preserved, presented in slipcase. Binding signed Visinand. Illustrated with a portrait after Bertall, decoration by A. Robaudi, engraved by Manesse. First edition limited to 300 numbered copies, one of 75 deluxe copies on Japon (n°56), with a double state before the letter of the portrait. A very fine copy.
