Honoré de Balzac, La belle Assemblée, annuaire... Lot 13

Honoré de Balzac, La belle Assemblée, annuaire fashionable. Paris, Janet, sd [1835]. In-8, [10 including engraved title]-232p. Fine edition with 10 hors-texte steel engravings (including the title) and containing 30 pieces, including Balzac's La Vie de château, which appears here in volume for the first time. It was originally published in La Mode on June 26, 1830. Full beige-pink moire boards, large gilt title, gilt edges, blue-green moiré paper slipcase. Joints split (and fraying), some foxing to the engravings, minor flaws to the slipcase. Fine paper. (Vicaire, IV-653; Lachèvre, p.80-81).