Paris: Société Générale de Librairie, 1855. Fifth edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. XXXI, [1], 614, [2]pp. Half morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Additional engraved title. Balzac originally has planned to produce 100 Droll Stories but produced just thirty, and they..... More
Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Company, ND (ca. 1890). Hardcover. Folio. Original gold-stamped and black illustrated brown cloth. Beveled edges. All gilt edges. Decorative patterned endpapers. Illustrated with 12 full-page b/w reproductions of drawings by French engraver, illustrator and sculptor, Paul Gustave Doré (1832-1883). The Wandering Jew is a figure from..... More
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., ND (ca 1903). Later edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 x 10"). [10]pp (Half-title, Presentation leaf, Frontispiece, chromolithographic leaf, and title page), 32pp (Gallery of Scripture Illustrations), 104pp (A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible), 18pp (A History of Religious Denominations), 16pp (Biblical Antiquities), 32pp (The Story..... More
New York: Virtue and Yorston, ND (ca 1870). Later edition. Hardcover. Folio (14 3/4 x 11"). [2], 1622pp (Old and New Testaments), [2], 80pp.(Index and Concise Dictionary of the Bible). Original black and gilt-embossed morocco, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Dentelles. Tissue-guarded..... More