BALZAC (Honoré de). La Vendetta. Paris : librairie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud, F. Ferroud successor, 1904. - In-8, 243 x 159 : (2 ff.), 148 pp. illustrated cover. Brown morocco, large flowered branch mosaic of purple, havana, lemon and green morocco on the first plate, small flowered branch of the same in the center of the second plate, spine ribbed, gilt fillet and floral roulette inside, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine kept (Chambolle-Duru). Separate edition of this short story first published in 1830 and part of the Scènes de la vie privée of La Comédie humaine. It is illustrated with nineteen compositions by Adrien MOREAU, etched by Xavier Lesueur, including one on the title, repeated on the cover, three full page and fifteen in the text. Edition of 250 numbered copies on japon or Arches vellum. This one, on Arches, is one of the thirty containing three states of the etchings (final state, before the letter with remark and pure etching with remark). It is enriched with three portraits of Balzac, two of them showing him as a young man, woodcut after Louis Boulanger and Achille Devéria, printed on chine, and another woodcut on wove paper, by Pierre-Eugène Vibert. There is also the publication prospectus and the handwritten contract between the Librairie des Amateurs and the engraver Xavier Lesueur for the nineteen engravings of the book, signed twice by the artist and dated June 7, 1902 (1 page in-4 with the heading "Librairie des Amateurs. A. Ferroud 127, Boulevard Saint-Germain, 127 Paris"). A very fine copy in a mosaic binding by Chambolle-Duru, specially executed for the bibliophile Maurice Quarré whose full-page bookplate, designed by Adolphe Giraldon, was bound in the front cover. Spine slightly lightened. Some foxing on the cover. Provenance : Maurice Quarré, with bookplate.