Provincial Life (La Comedie Humaine) - Ten Volume Set

Ten-volume set of Honore de Balzac's 'Scenes from Provincial Life,' one of the interlinked collections of his 'La Comedie Humaine.' Published from 1897-1898. Contents include: (1) Ursule Mirouet, (2) Pierette / Le Cure de Tours, (3) La Rabouilleuse, (4) Eugenie Grandet, (5) The Lily of the Valley, (6) The Illustrious Gaudissart / The Muse of the Department, (7) The Old Maid / The Cabinet of Antiquities, (8-10) Lost Illusions: The Two Poets; A Great Provincial in Paris; and Eve and David. Each numbered #315 from an edition limited to 1,000 copies. The set is in about good or good+ condition. Contemporary brown half-leather with marbled papered boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine. General rubbing and shelf-wear, edgewear; light fading and slight cracking to the leather at spines. Top of pages edged in gilt. Spines square. Modern repair to bindings at inner hinges; in most volumes the binding is also cracked slightly at the page before half title (volumes three, five, and ten exempted). No loose or missing pages; bindings sound through textblocks. FFEP of volume four / Eugenie Grandet is chipped at fore-edge, with a long vertical closed tear extended upwards. Pages clean and bright, texts unmarked.…