Contes drôlatiques.
Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
Category
Books
Date
1874
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257682
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxxii, 630, [2] p. : ill. ; 8vo. Bookseller's pencil code and note on front free endpaper verso: "w/-" and "early edition". Binding: Nineteenth-century full dark red cloth; gilt and black blocked illustration on upper board: knights; blind fillets to form a panel design on lower board; gilt and black lettering on upper board and spine; gilt and black blocked figures on spine; gilt top edge; yellow endpapers.
Makers and roles
Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850), author George Robert Sims (1847-1922), translator Gustave Doré (Strasbourg 1832 - Paris 1883), illustrator