- Partly foxed. = Vicaire I, p.798.

Balzac, H. de. Contes drôlatiques Colligez ez abbayes de Touraine. Paris, Ez Bureaux de la Société Générale de Libraire, 1855, 5th ed., XXXI,(1),615p., 425 (full-p.) woodengr. after G. DORÉ, contemp. hmor. w. gilt spine.

- Foxed copy.

= Vicaire I, p.190; Carteret III, p.48: "Ce livre est considéré comme le chef-d'oeuvre d'illustration de Gustave Doré (...)". The first impression of the illustrated edition of Balzac's contes, publ. in the same year as the first (unillustrated) ed. This copy with the following points of the first impression: with "Joyeulx" on p.326, p.425 without the address and without the number "36", and p.426 without the title of the conte Naifveté, but the title-p. with 425 ills. (instead of 424) and with "par Gustave Doré" printed on one line instead of two. See Leblanc p.39 for all the points of the first impression.

Kock, P. de, Balzac, H. de, Dumas, A. a.o. La Grande Ville. Nouveau Tableau de Paris Comique, Critique et Philosophique. Paris, Bureau Central des Publications Nouvelles, 1844, 2nd ed., 2 vols, (2),412; (2),418p., 29 woodengr. plates and num. ills. by i.a. H. DAUMIER and H. MONNIER, contemp. unif. hmor. w. gilt spine, 4to.

- Foxed copy. New endpapers.

= Vicaire III, p.1096-1098; Sander 314; Carteret III, p.278-280: "Ouvrage très important et remarquable par la belle pléiade de littérateurs et d'artistes de la période romantique qui y ont collaboré (...)".

AND 4 others, incl. the first vol. (of 3) of LE MUSÉE POUR RIRE (Paris, 1839, 50 lithogr. plates by i.a. H. DAUMIER and P. GAVARNI, orig. clothbacked publ. boards. Occas. sl. foxed; cover rubbed).