Comedie Humaine [33 Volume Set]
J. M. Dent and Company, 1898. First Edition. Leather Binding. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall (tall). Very Good / No Jacket. Item #L057071
Slight sunning to spines; slight wear to extremities (chiefly to heads of spines, spine edges and corners); slight internal browning and/or foxing (chiefly to edges). [ca. 350] pages per volume. Half-title (from half-title pages). Incomplete but still viable set of the famous illustrated English-language version of the 'Comedie Humaine' as it existed in the late Victorian era. Translated by Clara Bell, Ellen Marriage, James Waring and R. S. Scott; with prefaces by editor Saintsbury; engraved and/or etched illustrations by D. Murray Smith, W. Boucher, and others. Contents: 1) About Catherine de' Medici; 2) At the Sign of the Cat and Racket; 3) A Bachelor's Establishment; 4) Beatrix; 5) The Country Doctor; 6) The Country Parson; 7) Cousin Betty; 8) A Daughter of Eve: and, Letters of Two Brides; 9) A Distinguished Provincial at Paris; 10) Eugenie Grandet; 11) A Father's Curse: And Other Stories; 12) A Gondreville Mystery; 13) La Grande Breteche: And Other Stories; 14) A Harlot's Progress (volume 2 only); 15) The Jealousies of a Country Town; 16) The Lily of the Valley; 17) Lost Illusions; 18) A Marriage Settlement: And Other Stories; 19) The Member for Arcis; 20) The Middle Classes; 21) Modeste Mignon; 22) Old Goriot; 23) Parisians in the Country; 24) The Peasantry; 25) A Princess's Secrets; 26) The Quest of the Absolute; 27) The Seamy Side of History; 28) Seraphita; 29) The Thirteen; 30) The Unconscious Mummers: And Other Stories; 31) The Unknown Masterpiece: And Other Stories; 32) Ursule Mirouet; 33) The Wild Ass's Skin. One of 1200 sets of the 'Limited Edition ... printed for America' (the entire edition; this partial set is numbered 33 on limitation pages). See BMC, volume 2, page 262, columns 923-24; published between 1895 and 1898. 33 of 40 volumes; bound in 3/4 dark maroon morocco over dark red marbled boards, spines gilt-stamped and decorated, with partly raised bands, matching marbled endpapers, t.e.g., remaining edges untrimmed.About 100 Engraved Illustrations (including frontispieces).
Price: $750.00