Item #H25895 The Jealousies of a Country Town and The Commission in Lunacy, limited to 100 copies, leatherbound. Honoré de Balzac.
The Jealousies of a Country Town and The Commission in Lunacy, limited to 100 copies, leatherbound
The Jealousies of a Country Town and The Commission in Lunacy, limited to 100 copies, leatherbound

The Jealousies of a Country Town and The Commission in Lunacy, limited to 100 copies, leatherbound

London: Privately Printed for Members of the Elzevir Society, C. 1901. Hardcover. No. 6 of 100 copies of the Edition De Luxe. Translated by Ellen Marriage with introduction by George Saintsbury. 8vo, 9 x 6 inches, half dark green morocco and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt stamped & decorated on spine, very good, the spine color and parts of corners and boards have turned to a warm ruddy brown color (green is a notoriously "fugitive" color), contents very good, pages mainly uncut and unopened, very very light ex-library marks from CMU Library -- pencil note on verso of title page, withdrawn stamp on verso of rear flyleavf. Frontisiece and occasional engraved plates. Very handsome readable edition. Very good. Item #H25895

Price: $18.00

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