Author: Honore de Balzac
Title: Balzac&Apos;S Contes Drolatiques: Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine
Description: London, John Camden Hotten, 1874. Cloth. The collected humorous short stories of Honore de Balzac, here translated into English, with over four-hundred engravings by Gustave Dore. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and over four-hundred full-paged and in-text engravings throughout. A complete and unabridged English translation of Balzac's "Les Cent Contes Drolatiques", a collection of humorous short stories originally written in pastiche Renaissance French. Written by Honore de Balzac, a French novelist and playwright. Illustrated by Gustave Dore, a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrating classic literature. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and board edges. Small splits in the cloth to the head of the spine and the board tips. Front hinge starting but firm, rear hinge tender. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Further spotting and light age toning to the endpapers. Good . Ill.: Gustave Dore. Good .

Keywords: Balzac Dore Droll Stories Dore Gustave Dore


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