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Balzac, Dumas, Méry … — Babel — collection of short stories — É.O. — Renouard — 1840.

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Honoré de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas father, Joseph Méry … — Babel, publication of the society of men of letters — collection of short stories — original editions — Renouard — 1840.

Paris, Jules Renouard, 1840. 2 volumes in-8° (14 x 21.5 cm.). Frontispiece + 444 pp. & forehead. + 452pp. Thumbnails after Monnier (like the fronts). Initials. Full green sheepskin binding. Smooth spine adorned with golden fillets. Gold title. Handwritten corrections (changing the indications of 2nd volume in 1st volume): although the bindings are numbered 1 and 2, it is in fact volumes 2 and 3 of this review. Foxing. Rare stains (see photos above).

N umbers 2 & 3, out of 3 published, of this publication bringing together original texts by contemporary authors under the direction of Balzac. These two copies include, for volume 2: André Delrieu, La Bête fierce; Eugène Chapus, The Love of a Creole; Eugène Bareste, A New Ancient History; Henry Monnier, Les Mécontens; Samuel-Henri Berthoud, Tabary the Honest Man; Auguste Boulland, Chronicle of Jehanne of Arc; Hippolyte Bonnellier, About a Dead Assassin on the Scaffold; Honoré de Balzac, Pierre Grassou; Adolphe Joanne, Torment of three men of letters for press offences; Auguste Barbier, Heroic Rhymes: Sonnets. And for the third volume: Abel Lenoir, The three Ravens, or The Fiancé in spite of him; Altaroche, The reform and the revolution - historical parables; Alexandre Dumas, Jacques IV and Jacques V, kings of Scotland - fragment of the history of the Stuarts; Etienne Enault, Ophelia; Couailhac, The Address of Maubuisson, Louis Desnoyers (Derville), The great family of this good Mr. Tartuffe - contemporary sketches; Chopin, Olga; Joseph Méry, The Uninhabitable Planet (poetry).

Weight: 1.350 kg.


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