BALZAC (H.). Les Contes drolatiques colligez... - Lot 6 - Euvrard & Fabre

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BALZAC (H.). Les Contes drolatiques colligez... - Lot 6 - Euvrard & Fabre
BALZAC (H.). Les Contes drolatiques colligez ez abbeys de Touraine. Fifth edition illustrated with 425 drawings by Gustave DORÉ. Paris, Bureaux de la société générale de librairie, 1855; in-8 half mar. havana, author and gilt title on spine with nerves ornamented and gilt. (Noulhac). This edition published by Dutacq, after Balzac's death, was revised by Paul Lacroix. The latter had already offered Balzac to check the spelling of the first editions of the Tales, which provoked the anger of the author, offended by this involuntary "criticism". It was not until Balzac's death that the bibliophile Jacob accepted Mme de Balzac's request and corrected this edition (which, moreover, according to Spoelberch de Lovenjoul in his Histoire des oeuvres de Balzac, is actually the 4th and not the 5th edition).
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