BALZAC (Honoré de). The Skin of Sorrows. Social studies. Paris: H. Delloye, Victor Lecou, 1838. - In-8, red half-marble with corners, smooth back decorated, golden head, not trimmed ( 20th century binding ). First illustrated edition, decorated with 100 steel-engraved vignettes based on compositions by Baron, Janet-Lange, Gavarni, Français and Marckl. The text has more than four hundred variants compared to the previous edition . Copy of the first edition, with the title on the skeleton . Beautiful copy, washed, in modern binding. Tear repaired on pages 37-38, and tear in the margin of pages 383-384.