Honore de Balzac — Les Marana & la Cousine Bette

Paris, Societe D'Edition Litteraires et Artistiques, 1906-1908. Leather. Two delightfully illustrated volumes from Balzac, in the original French language. French language. Two volumes. Oeuvres Completes. Written by Honore de Balzac, a French novelist and playwright. Illustrated by Georges Cain, a French painter, writer, and illustrator. This set includes: Etudes Philosophiques: Les Marana, Adieu, El Verdugo, L'Auberge Rouge, Maitre Cornelius, L'Elixir de Longue Vie, Les Proscrits, 1906. Illustrated with ten plates. Collated complete. Les Parents Pauvres: Scenes de la vie Parisienne - La Cousine Bette, 1908. Bound in quarter crushed morocco with green cloth boards. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and the odd mark to the board. Fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light spotting to the first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: Georges Cain. Very Good .