Droll Stories collected from The Abbeys of Touraine

Balzac, Honoré
Publisher Williams Reeves,
Binding Hardback
Condition Good+, sound copy
SKU 23167
Notes Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Cloth is rather faded to the spine. Bumped to the tip of one corner else a very clean and neat copy of this extensively illustrated collection.

Description

Hardback. Illustrated throughout with with 425 ‘designs’ by Gustave Doré. xxxii, 651pp. Most of the preliminary pages are taken up with the extensive list of engravings by Doré. Originally published as Les Cent Contes Drolatiques there are in fact 30 short stories grouped into three "decades" (groups of ten). Translated into English.
Price: £12.00
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