Honoré de Balzac, Scènes de la Vie privée. Paris,... Lot 16

Honoré de Balzac, Scènes de la Vie privée. Paris, Mame-Delaunay, 1832. 2 volumes in-8, [4]-415-[4]-373p. First edition of volumes 3 and 4, marked second edition because published with the second edition of the other two volumes. They were published on May 22, 1832. These volumes contain 9 scenes, from n°VII to XV: Le Conseil (never republished), La Bourse, Le Devoir d'une femme (already published in 1830, became L'Adieu), Les Célibataires (became Le curé de Tours), Le Rendez-vous, La Femme de trente ans, Le Doigt de Dieu, Les deux Rencontres and L'Expiation. The last five chapters will become La Femme de trente ans. It should be noted that our volume bears no title. It was thus probably born without the first two volumes. Provenance: Le Marquis de Luppé, with a handwritten bookplate on the title page. Dark green half-basane, smooth spine, fillets. First volume partly wet, brown spots.