LOST ILLUSIONS
Written by Honore De Balzac, Herbert J. Hunt, Graham Robb
Illustrated by Francis Mosley
Published by Folio Society
in 2009
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LOST ILLUSIONS
Written by Honore De Balzac, Herbert J. Hunt, Graham Robb.
Illustrated by Francis Mosley.
Stock no. 1830560
1st thus.
2009.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
Translated by Herbert J. Hunt and with an introduction by Graham Robb. Brown cloth spine, gilt title. Beautiful bronze silk cloth with gilt peacock decorations. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. xvi and 584 pages. Some faint mottling to spine. Title block is lightly rubbed. Lower edge of text block has minor browning and a tiny amount of grubbiness. Overall, a lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- Part One: The Two Poets
- 1 A Provincial Printing Office
- 2 Madame de Bargeton
- 3 A Social Evening and a Riverside Stroll
- 4 Catastrophic Sequels to the Provincial Love
- Part Two: A Great Man in Embryo
- 1 First-Fruits
- 2 Flicoteaux
- 3 Two Varieties of Publishers
- 4 First Friendship
- 5 The Cenacle
- 6 The Flowers of Poverty
- 7 A Newspaper Seen from Outside
- 8 The Sonnets
- 9 Good Advice
- 10 A Third Variety of Publisher
- 11 The Wooden Galleries
- 12 A Publisher's Bookshop in the Wooden Galleries
- 13 A Fourth Variety of Publisher
- 14 Behind the Scenes
- 15 A Use for Druggists
- 16 Coralie
- 17 How a News-sheet is Edited
- 18 The Supper
- 19 An Actress's Apartments
- 20 Last Visit to the Cenacle
- 21 A Variety of Journalist
- 22 Boots can Change One's Way of Life
- 23 The Arcana of Journalism
- 24 Re-enter Dauriat
- 25 The Battle Begins
- 26 Dauriat Pays a Call
- 27 A Study in the Art of Recantation
- 28 Journalistic Grandeurs and Servitudes
- 29 The Playwrights Banker
- 30 A Journalist's Christening Party
- 31 Polite Society
- 32 The Viveurs
- 33 A Fifth Variety of Publisher
- 34 Blackmail
- 35 The Money-Brokers
- 36 A Change of Front
- 37 Finot's Fineses
- 38 The Fatefull Week
- 39 Skulduggery
- 40 Farewells
- Part Three: An Inventors Tribulations
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 The Doleful Confession of a Child of the Age
- 2 Back-kick from a Donkey
- THE HISTORY OF A LAWSUIT
- 3 The Problem at Issue
- 4 A Plucky Wife
- 5 A Judas in the Making
- 6 The Two Coinets
- 7 The First Thunderbolt
- 8 A Glance at Paper Making
- 9 Provincial Solicitors
- 10 A Few Public Lecture on Dishonoured Bills for Those Unable to Meet them
- 11 Lucien under Distraint
- 12 'Your House is on Fire'
- 13 A Contrast in Loyalties
- 14 Keeping the Fire Going
- 15 Climax
- 16 Imprisonment for Debit in the Provinces
- 17 An Obdurate Father
- 18 The Pack Pauses before the Kill
- 19 A Bride for Petit-Claud
- 20 The Cure Has His Say
- THE FATAL MEMBER OF THE FAMILY
- 21 The Prodigal's Return
- 22 An Unexpected Triumph
- 23 How the Triumph Had Been Staged
- 24 A Rare Kind of Devotion
- 25 The Pride of His Province?
- 26 The Snake in the Grass
- 27 Lucien Takes his Revenge
- 28 The Peak of Disaster
- 29 A Last Farewell
- 30 A Chance Encounter
- 31 The Story of a Favourite
- 32 A History Lecture for the Ambitious - by a Disciple of Machiavelli
- 33 A Lecture on Ethics - by a Disciple of Mendoza
- 34 A Spanish Profile
- 35 Why Criminality and Corruption Go Hand in Hand
- 36 On the Brink of Surrender
- 37 The Effect of a Night in Jail
- 38 A day Too Late
- 39 The History of a Business Venture
- 40 Conclusion