Émile Zola - Les Œuvres complètes - 1927-1929

Twelve volumes from Zola's complete works, published by François Bernouard in Paris. Each volume has notes and commentary by Maurice Le Blond, and the text follows the Eugène Fasquelle edition. The title pages are printed in red and black with a rose vignette.

Volumes included:

• Correspondance 1858–1871
• Correspondance II
• La Confession de Claude, suivi de Le Vœu d'une morte
• Thérèse Raquin / Madeleine Férat
• La Joie de vivre (Les Rougon-Macquart)
• La Vérité en marche, suivi de Nouvelle campagne
• Le Naturalisme au théâtre
• Théâtre II
• Contes et nouvelles I
• Contes et nouvelles II
• Le Roman expérimental
• Les Romanciers naturalistes

The edition was limited to 5,325 numbered copies. Ours are on vergé d'alfa (numbers 326–5,325); the copy shown is numbered 3465. The volumes have uniform half-leather bindings, with raised bands, gilt-ruled spines and titles, marbled paper boards and marbled endpapers. The edges are untrimmed.