La peau de chagrin
By: par m. H. de Balzac
Series: [Balzac illustré]
Publisher: Houdaille et cie éditeurs, 2, rue des Beaux-arts
Published: 1838
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 402
Notes: Cancel t.-p. (engr.); originally issued with title "Balzac illustré. La peau de chagrin. Études sociales," and imprint of H. Delloye & Victor Lecou, dated 1838; other issues have printed cancel t.-p.'s with imprint of Ledoux or Martinon.

Title vignette (engr.) has skeleton in right-hand corner effaced with hand still visible; some copies with imprint of Delloye & Lecou are recorded with skeleton intact; illus. engraved by V.M. Langlois, P.A.M. Brunellière, Félice (Monsaldy) Fournier & others, after Janet-Lange, G.S.C. Gavarni, H.C.A. Baron, Louis Marckl & others; some copies have in addition separate plates of ports. on p.149 & 287, not present in this copy.

Text is in 1st state; p.45 begins, "couche."

Signature title on recto of prelim. leaf 3, "Et. soc. t. xxvi"; running title, "Études sociales, deuxième partie" on versos, "Études philosophiques, La peau de chagrin" on rectos.

Intended as the first in a series of illustated editions of Balzac's works; no more published.