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Additional authors

1. Doré, Gustave

Description

1. xxxi(i), 614 p., 1 l.; 8̕.

Subject

1. Fiction French

Call number

1. Spencer Coll. French 1855

Note

1. First impression. One of the few copies on India paper.
2. Binding, by Marius Michel, 1909, of black crushed levant morocco. Sides surrounded by a three line fillet tooled in blind, enclosing an inlaid panel of gutta percha; front panel embossed with an oak leaf scroll intertwined at the top with a ribbon lettered: Une drachme de joyeulsetez; pendant from the scroll, a shield stamped with a figure from the vignette on the title-page; back panel embossed with a vine and clusters of grapes. Doublé with red morocco, gilt. Center panel plain, within a border of conventionalized oak leaves inlaid in black, and surrounded by an inlaid rame of black morocco with an inner and outer fillet in gilt. Back lettered in blind. With gilt edges, marbled end papers, and lining of black figured silk. In loose leather protective cover, tooled and lettered, and inserted in slip case.
3. Bookplate of W. A. Spencer and of the Bibliothèque de Paul de Saint-Victor.

Author

1. Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.

Title

1. Les contes drolatiques, colligez ez abbayes de Touraine et mis en lumière par le sieur de Balzac pour l'esbattement des Pantagruelistes et non aultres.

Imprint

1. Paris : Soc. générale de librairie, 1855.

Edition

1. Cinquiesme édition. Illustrée de 425 dessins par Gustave Doré.

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1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Doré, Gustave, ill.

Research call number

1. Spencer Coll. French 1855