Honore de Balzac — Pere Goriot: Scenes from Parisian Life

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1887. Leather. A handsome limited edition of Balzac"s Père Goriot, the great Parisian novel of ambition, sacrifice, and social climbing, bound in a half morocco binding by Geo. Winstanley. Bound in a half morocco binding with marbled paper boards, bound by Geo. Winstanley, Manchester. A limited edition being number three hundred and forty one of five hundred copies. With six illustrations by Lynch, engraved by E. Abot. Collated, complete. First published in 1835, Père Goriot is a central novel of La Comédie Humaine, depicting Parisian society during the Bourbon Restoration. Through the intertwined stories of Father Goriot, the law student Eugène de Rastignac, and the criminal Vautrin. Bound in a half morocco binding with marbled paper boards, bound by Geo. Winstanley. Externally, lovely. Slight rubbing to extremities, more so to joints and head of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot to fore edge. Near Fine . Ill.: Lynch. Near Fine .