BALZAC, Honoré de. - Lex contes drolatiques. Colligez ez Abbayes de Touraine. Illustrée de 425 dessins par Gustav Doré.

Paris, Société Générale de Librairie 1855. 5me éd. 8°. XXX (1) 614 S. Mit 425 (viele ganzseit.) Illustrationen in Holzstich von Gustav Doré. HLdr.-Bd. d. Zt. m. goldgeprägt. Rückentit. - (Oeuvres illustrées de H. de Balzac) Vicaire I, 190; Brivois 32; Sander 38 - Une des illustrations de Doré les plus intéressantes. Doré a cerrtainement répandes le meilleur de son talent. (Leblanc 39 f.). Er höht und belebt es auf kongeniale Art, er schafft geradezu einen Typus des illustrierten Buches, er entdeckt als Illustrator Neuland [à] Unerschöpflich ist jetzt die Kraft der Einbildung, unermüdlich das künstlerische Temperament, das mit grösster Leichtigkeit [à] 425 Holustiche schafft, gleich Balzac selbst, dem Berserker unter den Dichtern. (Farner S. 57).

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