Honoré de Balzac; Steele Savage - The Droll Stories of Honoré de Balzac - 1847

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The Droll Stories of Honoré de Balzac, published by Blue Ribbon Books in London around 1932. The illustrations for this edition were specially created by Steele Savage.
The book contains a collection of thirty short, often risqué or humorous, tales written by the French author Honoré de Balzac in the style of 16th-century writers like Rabelais. The stories often feature themes like clerical corruption and lack of chastity among monks and nuns in medieval France.
The illustrations by Steele Savage consist of numerous black-and-white engravings, including both full-page images and smaller vignette illustrations throughout the text.