BALZAC, Honoré de. Scènes de la Vie de Province.... Lot 6

BALZAC, Honoré de. Scènes de la Vie de Province. Deuxième série. Paris, Mme Charles-Béchet, Werdet, 1834-1837. 4 volumes in-8. Bound in contemporary half havane basane, smooth spine decorated with fillets. Ex libris of Eugène Scribe. Second complete 4-volume set of Etudes de mœurs du XIXe siècle (forming volumes V to VIII). Volume I includes the first edition of Eugénie Grandet. Volume II includes Le Message, Les Célibataires, La Femme abandonnée, La Grenadière, L'Illustre Gaudissart, all previously unpublished. Volume III includes La Grande Bretèche ou les trois vengeances and La Vieille fille, all previously unpublished. Volume IV includes Les Illusions perdues (first part) in first edition. Rare in period binding and under special stamping, from the library of Eugène Scribe. (Some foxing in volumes 3 and 4, but a fine copy). Vicaire I-197-198. Carteret I-69.