The Works of Honore de Balzac.

BALZAC, Honore de.

Item Number: 3615

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1896.

The Hanska edition, one of 1,000 numbered sets. Octavo, 40 volumes, bound in three quarters leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, gilt ruled to the front and rear panel, marbled endpapers, satin bookmarks bound in to each volume. Illustrated by various artists. In very good condition. An attractive set.

"One of the great novelists of all literature Balzac’s genius consists in his dynamic, unflagging, creative vigour; his superabundant imagination his masterly portrayal of passions and his grasp of such widely differing subjects" (Harvey & Heseltine, 44-45).