HONORE DE BALZAC SCENES OF PARISIAN LIFE HARDCOVER BOOK | COLLECTIBLE BOOKS LITERATURE HOME OFFICE LIBRARY-9" X 6" X 1" APPROX-CONDITIONS VARY WITH AGE AND USE SEE ALL PHOTOS-DP11521*This collection of fine books has been handed down Thru Arthur Friedman, Evan Richards (Tiziani), and his Partner Raf Rivioli.The Books that have signatures, are primarily from the Arthur Friedman collection. Friedman was a Major Textile Merchant, a music Patron and senior Member of the Metropolitan Opera. His music collection was donated to Princeton University.Evan Richards sang Opera at first thus his relationship with Friedman, but went on to be known later as Tiziani. Tiziani became the World Renown Couture fashion designer for European Royalty, major movie stars such as Elizabeth Taylor, and other very wealthy and important individuals such as Doris Duke (of Tobacco Frame). Tiziani gave Karl Lagerfeld a start at Tiziani’s Rome Fashion house in the mid and late 60’s where they worked together designing for more than 5 years. A Huge collection of their designs and work was successfully auctioned off several years ago.