Honoré de Balzac, L'école des ménages, bourgeois... Lot 48

Honoré de Balzac, L'école des ménages, bourgeois tragedy in five acts and prose. Paris, Carteret, 1907. In-4, 239p. Posthumous first edition. Preceded by a letter by Vte de Spoelberch de Lovenjoul. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait under serpente, after Bertall, and headpieces, ornate letters and culs-de-lampe by Robaudi engraved by Manesse. Edition of 300 copies, one of 225 on vellum. This play was written in 1838-39, and only 12 proofs were printed at the time, all of which were destroyed except for the Viscount de Lovenjoul's copy. Paperback, untrimmed, cardboard folder covered with embossed red paper decorated with arabesques. Spine faded. A fine copy.