Author: HONORE DE BALZAC
Title: The Devil's Heir, and other tales from Les Contes Drolatiques
Description: London, John Westhouse. 1945, First Thus. Hardcover. Ill.: R. A. Brandt. Book, The binding is badly stained, warped and torn; some pages have water stains, and one has finger marks not affecting the text, but generally the contents are ok. Really could do with rebinding. Nine stories, translated into English by J. Plummer, R. Scutt, J. P. Collas; author's prologue praising Rabelais; with b/w plates of curious and grotesque illustrations by R. A. Brandt. Fair/No Jacket.

Keywords: R.A. Brandtfiction Literature French Translation Illustration Bawdry Illustrated Pre-19th Century Fiction


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