Nineteen Volumes from Honore De Balzac’s La Comedie Humaine Novel Sequence

19 volumes from J M Dent and Sons 1890s edition of Honore de Balzac’s novel sequence, La Comedie Humaine.  All volumes uniformly bound and presented: green cloth-covered boards with de Balzac’s signature gilded on upper panels, gilt lettering and decoration on spine.  Tissue-guarded frontispieces, and two  further plate illustrations interleafed in text. Title pages printed in red and black.  Top edges gilded.  8vos.  Cloth a little worn and brushed, gently rounded on corners and spine ends.  Spines on all volumes are heavily sunned, making cloth brittle and occasionally frayed at spine ends.  Text block edges a little toned and dust darkened.  Some occasional spotting on endpapers, free endpapers have some toning, Several volumes have a previously owner’s name pencilled on the free endpaper; Cousin Betty has some uneven fading to boards;  Condreville Mystery has a creased tissue-guard; two or three volumes just a little skewed; Lily of the Valley has a tiny hole at the base of the frontispiece and title page;

The novels contained in these volumes are:

1. Daughter of Eve and Letters of Two Bridges
2. Beatrix
3. The Chouans
4. Cousin Betty
5. Condreville Mystery
6. Ursule Mirouet
7. Modeste Mignon
8. Country Doctor
9. The Wild Ass’s Skin
10. A Bachelor’s Establishment
11. About Catherine de Medici
12. A Harlot’s Progress
13. The Jealousies of a Country Town
14. Old Goriot
15. The Lily of the Valley
16. The Grande Breteche and Other Stories
17. The Marriage Settlement and Other Stories
18. The Member for Arcis
19. Lost Illusions

A large and heavy set which will incur an additional charge, above that quoted here, for international delivery.