La Peau de Chagrin:

FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION Royal 8vo. half vellum with marbled boards. Green leather title label to very ornate gilt decorated spine. t.e.g. Marbled endpapers. TEXT IN FRENCH. 402pp., with original illustrated paper wraps from a later edition (dated 1841) bound-in at rear. Title with vignette showing a man being pulled backward by skeleton, armed with a scythe, plus 100 steel engraved vignettes in the text after drawings by Adam, Baron, Boulanger, Charlet, David, Dev