Droll Stories by Balzac

Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine translated into English, complete and unabridged. Illustrated with 425 designs by Gustave Doré. 8vo, xxxii, 652pages. Original red cloth, pictorial design blocked in black and gilt to upper cover and spine, top edge gilt. 652pp London, John Camden Hotten. n.d. 

Originally published in French in three volumes in the 1830s, this later single edition in English, attractively bound in publisher's cloth, includes a translator's note and copious illustrations by Doré.

Balzac's lively tales of the medieval period, written in the tradition of Rabelais and Boccaccio. "One is nearer to understanding the great writers of the ancient world if one understands them as Balzac did." —Marcel Proust

Light foxing to preliminaries, roughly opened, still a bright copy.

Stock Code: 246837