Advertisements (Savoy Volume 8)

The Scenes of Parisian Life comprise “Splendours and Miseries,” “Cousin Bette,” “Cousin Pons,” “History of the Thirteen,” “Cesar Birotteau,” “The Civil Service,” “House of Nucingen,” and “The Petty Bourgeois,” and are now for the first time completely translated into English by competent hands, and illustrated with a series of eighty-eight etchings after drawings by celebrated Parisian book- illustrators, viz., G. Bussière, G. Cain, Dubouchet, L. E. Fournier, A. Lynch, A. Robaudi, and M. Vidal. The volumes will be handsomely printed on deckle-edged paper, and bound in cloth extra. Price £4 4s. per set of eleven volumes.
There will be a special Edition de Luxe, printed on Imperial Japanese Vellum, with the etchings in two states Before and After Remarquds. Price £8 8s. per set.
This First Series will be followed at a brief interval by the remaining works of Balzac, and Subscriptions may, if desired, be given for the entire “Comedie Humaine.”

“It is impossible to enter on a detailed criticism of Balzac’s novels. In them he scales every height and sounds every depth of human character,—from the purity of the mysterious Seraphitus-Seraphita, cold and strange, like the peaks of her northern Alps, to the loathsome sins of the Marneffes, whose deeds should find no calendar but that of Hell. In the great divisions of his Comédie, the scenes of private and of public life, of the provinces and of the city, in the philosophic studies, and in the Contes Drôlatiques, Balzac has built up a work of art which answers to a mediaeval cathedral. There are subterranean places, haunted by the Vautrins and ‘Filles aux yeux d’or’; there are the seats of the money-changers, where the Nucingens sit at the receipt of custom; there is the broad platform of every-day life, where the journalists intrigue, where love is sold for hire, where splendours and miseries abound, where the peasants cheat their lords, where women betray their husbands; there are the shrines where pious ladies pass saintly days; there are the dizzy heights of thought and rapture, whence falls a ray from the supernatural light of Swedenborg; there are the lustful and hideous grotesques of the Contes Drôlatiques. Through all swells, like the organ-tone, the ground-note and mingled murmur of Parisian life. The qualities of Balzac are his extraordinary range of knowledge, observation, sympathy, his steadfast determination to draw every line and shadow of his subject, his keen analysis of character and conduct. Balzac holds a more distinct and supreme place in French fiction than perhaps any English author does in the same field of art.”— Encyclopedia Britannica.

The Pierrot of the Minute. A Dramatic Phantasy by Ernest Dowson. Illustrated with Frontispiece, Initial Letter, Vignette, and Cul-de- Lampe by Aubrey Beardsley.

Three Hundred Copies, Crown 4to, price Seven Shillings and Sixpence net per copy. Also Twenty-five Copies printed on Imperial Japanese Vellum, price One Guinea net per copy.
Mr. Beardsley’s designs in this volume are amongst the most charming which have come from his pen. [Ready in January , 1897.

The Rape of the Lock. By Alexander Pope.
Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley.
Édition de Luxe of the above famous Poem, printed at the Chiswick Press, in Crown 4to size, on old style paper, illustrated with nine elaborate drawings by Mr. Aubrey Beardsley, and bound in a specially designed cloth cover. Limited edition, price Ten Shillings and Sixpence net per copy. Twenty-five copies on Japanese Vellum, at Two Guineas net per copy. [Large Paper edition out of print.]