Honoré de Balzac. La Comédie humaine. London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1895-1897. Edition de Berny, limited to twenty-five sets for export to America, of which this is number six. Forty octavo volumes. Frontispiece and several additional illustrated plates inserted throughout, in two states. Contemporary green half-morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, spines with five raised bands, compartments ruled and lettered or decoratively stamped in gilt; top edge gilt, others untrimmed; marbled endpapers. Backstrips dulled, edges and joints worn, some spine ends chipped. Still, a very good set. From the library of Sylvester Stallone.