Accession number
PML 198194
Creator
Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.
Published
[Paris, 1832].
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Susan Schinitsky, 2019.
Notes
One proof sheet numbered 38, extensively revised by Balzac.
First published under the title Les célibataires in the second edition of Scènes de la vie privé (1832).
Inscribed on the verso, "toutes les corrections sont de la main de M. de Balzac mon frère, L. Surville, neé de Balzac."
First published under the title Les célibataires in the second edition of Scènes de la vie privé (1832).
Inscribed on the verso, "toutes les corrections sont de la main de M. de Balzac mon frère, L. Surville, neé de Balzac."
Description
1 leaf ; 27 cm.
Provenance
Possibly the proof sheet in the collection of Pierre Berès, who loaned it for the Biliothèque nationale Balzac exhibition in 1950, catalogue item 186. The Astrophil Collection sold in the Astrophil sale of 15 November 2018, item 405.
Binding
Pamphlet binder
Classification
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Department