The Civil Service by Honore de Balzac
1896. No edition remarks. 433 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustration plates. Rough cut edges to textblock. Gilt top edge. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.